VALE OF FRUIN

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

Date1916

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 115 3/12' x breadth 22 7/12' x depth 13'
Gross Tonnage: 211 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001404

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 518.
Subsequent Names: LOCH ERIBOLL; SANGARIUS (1927).

Fate: Scrapped 1960.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1915: Vale of Leven Steam Fishing Co., Leven, registered at Aberdeen, A546.
12/1916: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper, armament 1 x 6 pdr, Admiralty No. 3250.
1919: Returned to owners, then owned by F. Splashett, Lowestoft.
1923: A. Bruce and others, Aberdeen, A863.
1958: D. Wood, Aberdeen.
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 496)

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)