CAPTAIN POLLEN

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

Date1917

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 125' 7" x breadth 22' 8" x depth 14' 3"
Gross Tonnage: 274 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001422

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 536.
Subsequent Names: PREVOYANCE SOCIALE (1926); AVONGLEN (1935).

Fate: Scrapped in 1959.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1917: Rushworth Steam Fishing Co.Ltd, Grimsby, GY1108.
12/1917: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper, armament 1 x 12 pdr, Admiralty No., 1656.
1919: Returned to owners.
1919: J Johnson, Scarborough.
192?: Hudson Bros. Ltd, Hull.
1926: Soc Anon Armement Ostendais, Ostend.
1935: North Star Steam Fishing Co. Ltd, Aberdeen, A383.
08/1940: Requisitioned and converted for the Examination Service. Converted to hospital tender, 1942.
08/1946: Returned to owners, North Star Steam Fishing Co. Ltd.
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 76)

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)