GUST
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
Gross Tonnage: 96 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001444
Keywords
Yard Number: 558
Official Number: 137722
Subsequent Name: BURNHAVEN (1922)
Fate: Demolished in 1955 by Edgar Rees & Co. Ltd., Llanelli.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw Admiralty drifter, 1 x 6 pdr gun.
Owners:
06/12/1918: Royal Navy. Completed as a minesweeper. Admiralty. No. 3981.
12/10/1920: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
25/11/1920: Robert G. Roe, Ramsgate. Registered at Ramsgate, R 347.
1922: George Wood, Aberdeen. Renamed BURNHAVEN. Registered at Peterhead, PD 591.
1924: Owners Richard Irvin & Sons Ltd., North Shields and William Flett, Findochty. Buckie, BCK.73
30/08/1939: Requisitioned by Admiralty, transport duties, harbour service. Pennant No., FY.1607.
01/1943: Transferred to Fleet Air Arm as torpedo recovery vessel.
1945: Returned to owners.
1945: Arthur C. Mitchell and others, Milford. Registered at Lowestoft, LT.164.
1948: Frank A.J. Beckett, Milford.
1948: Merchants (Milford Haven) Ltd., Milford.
05/08/1955: Arrived at Llanelli for demolition.
Notes: Steam by screw, inverted, surface condensing, triple expansion engine, 9½” x 15½” x 26” with 18” stroke, 180 i.h.p., 42 n.h.p. by AH.
Boiler: Number 1.S.B; Diameter 10'; Length 9' 6"; Pressure (p.s.i.) 180
Single screw propellor.
See also:
History (CS) - http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=1918&builder=&ref=58250&vessel=GUST
History (LL) -
Port of Lowestoft records (LH) 1945-55: - http://www.lowestofthistory.com/fish/vessel2.html
WW I Service (NH) - https://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishShips-Dittmar4APb.htm
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