ROBERT STROUD

Owner H E Stroud Aberdeen A123

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

Date1930

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 117 3/12' x breadth 22 7/12' x depth 13'
Gross Tonnage: 219 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001512

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 626
Subsequent Name: LAURA PATON (1946)

Fate: unknown

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1930: H. E. Stroud, Aberdeen, fishing number A123
08/1939: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper, pennant no. FY. 687.
1946: Returned to owners, April 1946.
1943: Owned by Ardrossan Tr. Ltd, Glasgow.
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 396)

Note: 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)