PITSTRUAN

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

Date1930

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 115 3/12' x breadth 22 7/12' x depth 13'
Gross Tonnage: 211 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001507

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 621
Official Number: 148968
Subsequent Names: GRACE PATON (1946); CONQUISTADOR

Fate: Broken up in UK, 1962.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler.

Owners:
1930: Great Western Fishing Co. Manager John Doeg, Registered at Aberdeen, A86.
05/1940: Requisitioned in May 1940 and converted to minesweeper.
1944: Conveted to an Esso (fuel carrier).
11/1940: Returned to owners.
1943: Boston D S F & T Co. Ltd, Aberdeen.
1946: Ardrossan Tr. Ltd, Glasgow and renamed GRACE PATON.
Later renamed CONQUISTADOR and owned by T. L. Devlin, Granton.
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 362)

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 12", 20" and 34" 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)