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

Date1917

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

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

Object numberABDSHIP001412

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 526.
Subsequent Name: JEAN STEPHEN (1936).

Fate: Went ashore, Sinclair Bay, north of Wick, 18 January 1958. Crew saved.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1917: South Western Steam Fishing Company, Grimsby (Builder's List)
1917: R. W. Milburn, Whitby, registered at Grimsby, GY1028. (Toghill)
06/1917: Taken up for minelaying duties, armament 1 x 6 pdr, 1 x 7.5 inch bomb thrower, Admiralty No. 1271.
1919: Released by Navy.
1920: Trident Steam Fishing Co. Ltd, Hull.
1930: R. Bell, Granton (sold to them in 1928).
10/1936: Stephen Fishing Co. Ltd, A420.
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 425)

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)