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SUNDOWN
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SUNDOWN

Shipbuilder (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 numberABDSHIP001447
About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 561.

Fate: Wrecked 30 August 1939.

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

Owners:
1918: Royal Navy.

Note: 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)