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WATERSMEET
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WATERSMEET

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 numberABDSHIP001458
About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 572.
Subsequent Name: GEORGE BAKER

Fate: unknown

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw Admiralty drifter.

Owners:
1919: Royal Navy.
Later owned by E. A. Baker, Yarmouth and renamed GEORGE BAKER.
By 1934: J. Mitchell, Lowestoft.

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)