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FRESHET

OwnerOwned by 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 tons

Object numberABDSHIP001440

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 554.
Subsequent Names: JEAN PATERSON (1920); XMAS ROSE (1923)

Fate: Sunk after detonating a German laid mine in position 51.47.45N 01.25.30E - off The Naze - 2.25 miles SW of the NE Gunfleet Sands Buoy, 21 November 1940.

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

Owners:
1918: Royal Navy
1920: Passed to Fishery Board for Scotland for disposal.
1920: Sold to Thomas Capes of Aberdeen, registered in Aberdeen A382.
1923: Sold to Robert Watt, Mrs Mary Watt of Fraserburgh, John Watt of Sandhaven, and James Watt of Crovie and re-registered in Fraserburgh on 5 January 1923, FR531.
1923: James Watt, Watt's Buildings, Shore Street, Sandhaven, Aberdeenshire. (Merchant Navy List)
1939: Mary Johnston or Watt and others. (Mariner's Almanac)
1930-1940: Requisitioned for War Service as an Auxiliary Patrol Vessel armed with 2 machine guns. Hired by the Admiralty as a minesweeper November 1939 and converted to an armed patrol drifter in August 1940.

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 9½", 15" and 26" cylinders, 18" stroke, 42 HP. Boiler 10'0" diameter, 9'6" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)