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LASHER

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: 95 tons

Object numberABDSHIP001457

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 571.
Subsequent Name: GOLDEN RING (1952)

Fate: Scrapped 1957.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw Admiralty drifter.

Owners:
1920: Royal Navy. Completed as a fishing vessel and handed over to the Fishery Board for Scotland for disposal.
1921: Sold to Jas. Brunton, Cellardyke, and G. Barclay and registered in Kirkcaldy, KY25.
1923: Merchant Navy List gives owner as James Brunton of 59 James Street, Cellardyke and Manager as William S. Bonthrom of Anstruther.
1934-39: J. Brunton and J. Brunton (jnr) of Cellardyke. (Mariners Almanac)
1940-41: James Brunton and Anne G. Brunton.
1941-46: Requisitioned for war service to be used on harbour duties.
1946: Sold to George Walker, Fraserburgh, F. West and others, Gardenstown and re-registered in Banff, BF79.
1948: Sold to Andrew Buchan, J. Buchan, J. Buchan and W. Buchan of Fraserburgh - kept Banff registry at first but later re-registered in Fraserburgh - FR567 apparently for 2 days only.
09/1948: Sold to Carry On Fishing Company of Lowestoft
1949: re-registered in Lowestoft, LT408.

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)

With acknowledgement to Mr J. Reid, 'Steam Drifters Recalled'.