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FOREMOST CHIEF

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

Date1929

Object NameDREDGER

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 190 3/6' x breadth 38 1/12' x depth 16 3/6'
Gross Tonnage: 1031 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001500

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 614
Subsequent Names: SAN JUAN (1935); MIDIA (1938)

Fate: unknown, last entry in Lloyd's Register in 1958-59.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Suction hopper dredger, fitted with electric light, and for oil-fuel (by 1931).

Owners:
1929: James Dredging Towage & Transport Co., London
1935: Change of name to SAN JUAN, and by 1937 change of owners to A/S Skandinavisk Sandsugerselskab (Port of Registry Copenhagen).
1938: Administrata Commerciala a Porturilor SiCailor de Communicatie pe Apa. Port of Registry now Constantza, Romania.

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 16", 25" and 42" cylinders, 24" stroke. 2 Boilers 14'6" diameter, 11'6" length, 190 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)