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WHIRLPOOL
WHIRLPOOL
WHIRLPOOL

WHIRLPOOL

Shipbuilder (Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1919
Object NameADMIRALTY TRAWLER
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 86 3/12' x breadth 18 7/12' x depth 10'
Gross Tonnage: 95 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001456
About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 570.

Fate: Scrapped Faslane 28 March 1956.

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

Owners:
30/03/1920: Royal Navy. Used target service (1941).

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)