RILETTE

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 numberABDSHIP001413

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 527.

Fate: Scrapped in Belgium, 1958.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler.

Owners:
1917: E E Cox, Grimsby. GY1046. (Toghill)
05/1917: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper. Fitted with listening hydrophones, armed with 1 x 12 pdr and 1x 7.5 inch bomb thrower (A/S Howitzer). Admiralty No. 334.
1919: Returned to owners.
1937: T. H. Scales & Son, Leith.
1945: J. Marr & Son Ltd, Leith, LH35.
1946: Rilette Trawling Co., Manager G. Wilson.
1948: Clova Fishing Co. Ltd, Aberdeen, A278. Manager D. Wood, Aberdeen.
1955-56: Class withdrawn.
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 392-3)

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)