LORD STANHOPE

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

Date1916

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 115 3/12' x breadth 22 1/12' x depth 12 9/12'
Gross Tonnage: 212 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001408

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 522.
Subsequent Name: SANSONNET (1923).

Fate: Sunk 3 April 1940.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1916: Beacon Steam Fishing Co. Ltd, Grimsby, GY931
09/1916: Requisitioned and converted to a minesweeper, armament 1 x 12 pdr, Admiralty No. 2961.
1919: Returned to owners.
1920: B. Levinson, Grimsby.
1923: vessel is owned by A. Bruce, Aberdeen, A862.
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 279)

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 12", 20" and 34" cylinders, 24" stroke. Boiler 12'9" diameter, 10'9" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)