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NOSS HEAD

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

Date1921

Object NameCARGO VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 150 1/3' x breadth 24 1/12' x depth 11 1/3'
Gross Tonnage: 437 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001471

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 585.

Fate: Missing believed sunk in the Moray Firth 28 February 1941.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw cargo steamer, quarterdeck 85' bridge deck 12', forecastle 19', machinery aft.

Owner:
1921: Henry and Macgregor, registered at Leith

General History:
With a crew of ten and two gunners, the NOSS HEAD left Leith on 25 February 1941, bound for Kirkwall with a cargo of coal and bricks. She sheltered in Gardenstown Bay from 10am on 26th until 8:30am on 27th when she left to resume the voyage. Was not seen again, but rafts with two bodies washed ashore at Deerness on 1 March and Tarracliff Bay on 2 March.

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 13", 21½" and 35" cylinders, 24" stroke. Boiler 13'0" diameter, 10'6" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)