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Owner 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 numberABDSHIP001441

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 555.
Subsequent Names: FLORENCE PRITCHARD (1920); MANX PRINCESS (1923)

Fate: Sold for scrap, 1954.

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

Owners:
1918: Royal Navy, Pennant No. 3978.
1920: Completed as a fishing vessel and handed over to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries for disposal.
1920: T. W. Dixon of Whitehaven and registered in Liverpool LL120.
1923: A. Gore, Isle of Man and registered in Dublin DO91.
1932: J. Murray (Gyke), Buckie, E. Murray, Findochty, and J.R.C. Logie, Buckie and re-registered in Buckie BCK118.
1939-1944: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper/torpedo recovery vessel (Pennant No. FY 1543).
1946: Sold to A. Reid and others of Peterhead and re-registered in Peterhead PD309.
1949: Registered owners were G. G. Strachan (Caley) Peterhead and others. Cowie's Davy was skipper and part owner.

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)

With acknowledgement to Mr J. Reid 'Steam Drifters Recalled'

Another source gives the following information:
By 1921 renamed EUNICE & NELLIE and owned by Murray & Logie, Buckie. (BCK118).
Scrapped 17 December 1952.