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GRABALL
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GRABALL

Shipbuilder (Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1935
Object NameDREDGER
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 125 1/3' x breadth 30 1/12' x depth 11'
Gross Tonnage: 340 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001542
About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 656

Fate: unknown, last entry in Lloyd's Regster for 1964.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw grab hopper dredger

Owners:
1935: Great Western Railway Company, registered in London.
1948: British Transport Commission.
1964: Kendall Bros. (Portsmouth) Ltd.

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 12", 19" and 31" cylinders, 22" stroke. Boiler 11'6" diameter, 10'0" length, 185 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)


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