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RICHARD W LEWIS
RICHARD W LEWIS
RICHARD W LEWIS

RICHARD W LEWIS

Shipbuilder (Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date22 August 1929
Object NameFISHING VESSEL
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 124 1/3' x breadth 22 5/12' x depth 13'
Gross Tonnage: 231 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001503
About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 617.
Official Number: 148963
Subsequent Name: OCEAN EDDY (1935)

Fate: Scrapped in 1960 by J. A. White & Co. Ltd., St. Davids on Forth.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Trawler, side, steam, screw, steel.

Owners:
09/1929: Richard W. Lewis, Registered at Aberdeen, A 50.
1933: North Eastern Fishing Co. Ltd., Aberdeen (Andrew Lewis).
1934: Flockhart & Sons Ltd., Leith.
14/01/1935: Renamed OCEAN EDDY. Registered at Leith, LH 62.
1939: Boston Deep Sea Fisheries & Ice Co. Ltd., Fleetwood.
06/01/1940: Requisitioned by Admiralty, as a boom defence vessel. Pennant No. Z 413.
1945: Huxley Steam Fishing Co. Ltd., Grimsby.
25/02/1945: Returned to owners.
11/1946: Registered at Grimsby, GY 391.
05/1948: George Walker, Aberdeen. Registered at Aberdeen, A 609
15/01/1951: Andrew Walker King, James King & William Jappy, Aberdeen.
22/02/1954: Andrew Walker King and James King, Aberdeen.
28/05/1957: George Inglis Ward, Registered at Leith, LH 85.
1960: Sold to BISCO for demolition.

General History:
22/08/1929: Launched. Miss Kate Lewis, daughter of the owner, named the vessel.
27/03/1939: Engine breakdown. Towed 30 miles to Lerwick by OCEAN DRIFT, LH 73.
15/04/1960: Arrived at St. Davids for demolition.

Steam by screw, inverted, surface condensing, triple expansion engine, 12” x 20” x 34” with 24” stroke, 63 r.h.p. by R.W. Lewis & Sons Ltd., Aberdeen.
Boiler number: 1.S.B.; Heating area (ft2) 1500; furnaces 3. p.f.; pressure (p.s.i) 180
Single screw propellor.

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