WINDFALL

Shipownervessel built for Admiralty

Shipbuildervessel built by Alexander HALL & Co. (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1919

Object NameADMIRALTY TRAWLER

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 86' x breadth 18'6" x depth 10'
gross tonnage 96.27 tons

Object numberABDSHIP001462

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 576.

Fate: Scrapped, 1955.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw Admiralty drifter.

Owners:
1920: Royal Navy. Handed over to Fishery Board for Scotland for sale.
1921: Sold to John Campbell & others, Lossiemouth, re-registered INS 189.
1928: Sold to Duncan MacIver Ltd, Stornoway and re-registered SY 567.

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)

Note: Wm. Beardmore were the Admiralty contractor for all machinery to be installed in British built steel and wood hulled drifters and the engine and boiler were probably built to their drawings.

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