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WINDWARD

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 numberABDSHIP001461

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 575.
Subsequent Names: COULIT HEAD (1921); SCARLET THREAD (1925)

Fate: Scrapped, 3 May 1952.

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 and registered in Buckie as BCK349 but not actually owned in Buckie.
1921: Sold to G. Wilson, Peterhead, registered in Peterhead, PD454.
1923: Managing owner as George Wilson, 43 North Street, Peterhead. (Merchant Navy List)
1923: Sold to J. Blackhall, Fraserburgh and others and re-registered Fraserburgh FR537 on 19 April 1923.
12/09/1925: Sold to John N. Stephen, John W. Stephen and James G. Stephen, Peterhead, re-registered, PD57.
1937: Sold to Thomas A. Adam, E. Adam, A. A. Adam of St. Monance, Fife and re-registered in Kirkcaldy, KY197.
1939-1945: Requisitioned for war service as a NAAFI boat in Scapa Flow.
1945: Sold to Walker Steam Fishing Co. Aberdeen with KY registry.

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 9½", 15" and 26" cylinders, 18" stroke, 40 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'.