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

Date1921

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 125 1/3' x breadth 23 1/12' x depth 13 3/6'
Gross Tonnage: 257 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001466

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 580.
Subsequent Name: ZAREBA (1940).

Fate: unknown

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1920: Clifton Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood,
08/1940: Requisitioned, converted to a minesweeper. Pennant No. FY.1814. Converted to a Barrage Balloon Vessel in 1944.
1944: Owned by Malcolm Smith Ltd, Fleetwood.
1945: Returned to owners.
1948: Shire Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood.
1953: A Hay, Aberdeen, A618. Later known as Devotion Fishing Co. Ltd (A. Hay), Aberdeen.
Later owned by J & C Davies, Fleetwood.
In 1968-69 register as owned in Aberdeen but in 1970-71 as Fleetwood owned.
(Source: Lloyd's Register of Shipping)
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 528)

Note: Triple expansion engines with 13", 22" and 36" cylinders, 27" stroke. Boiler 13'6" diameter, 10'6" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Converted to diesel 1962.
According to an enquirer, this vessel made a 'record trip' probably sometime in the early 1950s.