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MATTHEW CROOKE

Shipownervessel built for Admiralty

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

Date1917

Object NameADMIRALTY TRAWLER

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 115' 3" x breadth 22' 7" x depth 13'
Gross Tonnage: 223 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001420

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 534.
Subsequent Name: FORTROSE (1922)

Fate: Scrapped 1961.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1917: The Admiralty, armament 1 x 12 pdr, Admiralty No., 3655
01/1922, the Admiralty sold this vessel to John Lewis of Aberdeen for about £6000 (A801).
05/1940: Requisitioned, armament 1 x 3 pdr, Pennant No. 4 275
1943: Owned by Stephen Fishing Co. Ltd.
1945: Returned to owners
(Gerald Toghill (2003), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part One: Admiralty Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), pp. 182-3)

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 12", 20" and 34" cylinders, 24" stroke. Boiler 12'6" diameter, 10'0" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)