WILLIAM H HASTIE

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

Date1916

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 117 3/12' x breadth 22 7/12' x depth 13'
gross tonnage: 228 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001407

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 521.

Fate: Scrapped in the UK, March 1962.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1916: R. Hastie & Sons Ltd, North Shields, SN283.
07/1916: Requisitioned for minesweeping, fitted with listening hydrophones. Armament 1 x 12 pdr, Admiralty No. 1999.
1919: Returned to owners .
08/1940: Requisitioned and converted for the Examination Service.
1941: Converted to a salvage vessel.
03/1945: Returned to owners.
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), pp. 521-2)

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 13", 21½" and 35" cylinders, 24" stroke. Boiler 13'3" diameter, 10'3" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)