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Shipownervessel built for Admiralty

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

Date1918

Object NameADMIRALTY TRAWLER

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 86 3/12' x breadth 18 7/12 x depth 10'
Gross Tonnage: 96 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001428

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 542.
Subsequent Names: HAMNAVOE (1945); AMARANTH (c1955)

Fate: Scrapped in Belgium 1956.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw Admiralty drifter, 1 x 6 pdr gun.

Owners:
30/03/1918-1945: Served in the Royal Navy.
1945: Robert W. Watt and A. Watt, Fraserburgh, re-registered FR123.
1946: P. Willment, Yarmouth.
1950: Thule Fishing Co., Fraserburgh.
1951: Paul O. Williment, of Gorleston and re-registered in Yarmouth YH117.
1955: Newson & Hewett, Yarmouth (G. R. Newson, Yarmouth and R. Hewett of Winterton).

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 9½", 15½" and 26" cylinders, 18" stroke. Boiler 10'0" diameter, 9'6" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)