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TIDAL WAVE
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TIDAL WAVE

Owner
Shipbuilder (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 numberABDSHIP001453
About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 567.
Subsequent Names: SOPHIA S SUMMERS; NORMAN WILSON (by 1923).

Fate: unknown

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

Owners:
1919: Royal Navy.
Later owned by Fishery Board for Scotland.
1923: Wilson, Shield & Gardner', Cellardyke.

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)