SARRAIL

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

Date1917

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 120' 2" x breadth 22' 6" x depth 13'
Gross Tonnage: 254 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001417

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 531.
Subsequent Names: AROSA (1927); BILSDEAN (1930).

Fate: Scrapped in 1960.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1917: E. Taylor & N. Ashworth of Fleetwood, registered at Grimsby, GY1071
07/1917: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper, armament 1 x 12 pdr, Admiralty No. 3050.
1919: Returned to owners.
1920: A. Jonckheere /E Taylor, Fleetwood.
1923: J. Nierinck, Fleetwood.
1926: Mrs Skoyles, Aberdeen.
1927: Pesquera Vasco Gallega Soc. Ltda, Vigo.
1930: A. J. Brown, Granton.
02/1940: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper.
11/1945: Returned to owner, November 1945.
1944: Owned by Miss J Porter, Aberdeen, A605.
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 424)

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 12½", 21" and 35" cylinders, 24" stroke. Boiler 13'0" diameter, 10'6" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)