TYPHOON
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1919
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 numberABDSHIP001451
Keywords
Yard Number: 565.
Subsequent Name: OCEAN LASSIE
Fate: Sunk by mine at outer ridge buoy, Harwich, 3 June 1940 (Lloyd's War Losses: The Second Word War, (Lloyd's of London, 1989) vol. 1, p. 77)
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw Admiralty drifter, 1 x 6 pdr gun.
Owners:
1919: Royal Navy.
1939: W. E. Shreeve, Yarmouth, YH78. (The Mariner's Almanac 1939, p. 521)
c.1940: requisitioned
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)
