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ST. KILDA

Owner Royal Navy

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

Date1942

Object NameMINESWEEPER

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 150 1/3' x breadth 27 7/12' x depth 15'
Gross Tonnage: 465 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001565

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 679
Subsequent Names: CLAES COMPAEN (1948); PROFESSOR HENSEN (1952); DONAR (1956); SEA LION (1976)

Fate: unknown

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Isles class Admiralty trawler, armament 1 x 12 pdr, 3 x 20 mm AA.

Owner:
1942: Royal Navy, pennant number T209
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 530)
10/1946: Sold to mercantile, German owners from 1948.
1956: Friedrich Beutebrock, Lubeck.

General History:
Ordered on 21 February 1941.

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 13½", 23" and 38" cylinders, 27" stroke. Water tube boiler (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Diesel fitted 1956.