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EMPIRE FRED
EMPIRE FRED
EMPIRE FRED

EMPIRE FRED

Shipbuilder (Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date11 September 1942
Object NameTUG
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 105 3/12' x breadth 27 1/12' x depth 12 3/6'
Gross Tonnage: 234 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001569
About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 683

Fate: Scrapped in April 1974 at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Modified Warrior Class tug.

Owners:
1942: Ministry Of War Transport

General History:
Converted in 1970 to an accommodation ship at Chatham Dockyard.

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 16", 25" and 42" cylinders, 27" stroke. Boiler 16'0" diameter, 11'6" length, 200 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
ABERDEEN EXPLORER
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
17 May 1965
EMPIRE CONNIE
Alexander HALL & Co.
1945
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
12 November 1924
TAIWAN
Alexander HALL & Co.
November 1866
SIR FRED PARKES
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
9 December 1966
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
13 June 1918
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
15 January 1964
EMPIRE SPITFIRE
Alexander HALL & Co.
1943
EMPIRE RODERICK
Alexander HALL & Co.
1946
FOREMOST 83
Alexander HALL & Co.
1931
EMPIRE MINOTAUR
Alexander HALL & Co.
16 April 1942
AGNES BLAIKIE
Walter Hood & Co.
1841
WOOLOOMOOLOO
Walter Hood & Co.
1852
MOUNTAIN MAID
Alexander HALL & Co.
1842
COLLEEN BAWN
Alexander HALL & Co.
1861
EMPIRE GNOME
Admiralty
1942
CARNAQUHEEN
April 1867
JOHN BUNYAN
Walter Hood & Co.
1848
QUEBEC PACKET
Nicol Reid & Co.
10 April 1822
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
January 1880
Ebro (676) - General Arrangement
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
21 April 1920