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SEABREEZE

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 numberABDSHIP001446

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 560.
Subsequent Name: SAPPHIRE STONE (1946)

Fate: Sold to Faroe Islands 31 July 1954 but laid up in Buckie Harbour and Peterhead until sent to be broken up in Belgium in 1955.

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

Owners:
24/12/1918: Built for the Admiralty as a standard drifter (Pennant Number 4119) and retained on Royal Navy Service until 1946.
1946: Sold to W. Innes, Portknockie, Banffshire and others and registered in Banff BF117.

Notes: The SAPPHIRE STONE was the last Portknockie and Moray Firth steam drifter.
Triple expansion engines with 9½", 15" 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)

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