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FOREMOST GLEN
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FOREMOST GLEN

Shipbuilder (Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1940
Object NameDREDGER
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 148 1/3' x breadth 27 1/12' x depth 10 3/12'
Gross Tonnage: 326 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001554
About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 668

Fate: Scrapped 1955.

Propulsion: None
Description: Bucket dredger

Owners:
07/1940: Delivered to Great Western Railway Co. at Cardiff.
1948: transferred to British Transport Commission Western Region.
01/01/1949: D. & I.W. Executive.

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 10", 16¼" and 27" cylinders, 20" stroke. Boiler 12'0" diameter, 10'6" length, 180 lb. pressure, driving the dredging equipment (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)

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