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GALE

Owner Admiralty

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

Object numberABDSHIP001452

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 566.
Subsequent Name: OCEAN LOVER (1920)

Fate: Sank off Peterhead, 1948.

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

Owners:
1919: Royal Navy.
1920: Sold to W. J. E. Green, Great Yarmouth, YH107.
1923: W. J. E. Green, Ltd., South Denes, Yarmouth and manager Neil Mackay. (Merchant Navy List)
1946: Owned by A. Buchan, Peterhead.
1948: A. P. Buchan and others of Peterhead and registered PD157 (Register of Fishing Vessels)

Note: 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)