P FANNON

Shipbuildervessel built by Alexander HALL & Co. (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1915

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 115' 7" x breadth 22' 7" x depth 13'
Gross Tonnage: 211 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001400

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 514.

Fate: Scrapped July 1961.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1915: Aberdeen Pioneer Steam Fishing Company Limited, A349
07/1915: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper, armament 1 x 6pdr, Admiralty No. 1816. Based at Scapa Flow for convoy escort duties.
1919: Returned to owners.
Later owned by Strouds S F Co. Ltd, Aberdeen.
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 357)

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 12", 20" and 34" cylinders, 23" stroke. Boiler 12'6" diameter, 10'3" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)