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ASKUR
ASKUR
ASKUR

ASKUR

Shipbuilder (Footdee, Aberdeen)
DateOctober 1947
Object NameFISHING VESSEL
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 175 5/12' x breadth 30 1/12' x depth 16'
gross tonnage: 657 tons
Object numberABDSHIP001604
About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 718

Fate: Broken up in Belgium, 1969.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1947: Icelandic Government, Reykjavík.
1949: Askur H/F Reykjavík
1964: Sildar & Fisrimjolsverksmidjan h/f


Notes: Triple expansion engines with 16½", 28½" and 47" cylinders, 30" stroke. Boiler 16'0" diameter, 11'0" length, 225 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Engine number 429
NORTH BREEZE
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
23 April 1891
Black and white photograph showing the port side of the trawler Austfirdingur
John Lewis & Sons
1951
JAMES BASHFORD
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
12 June 1919
KARLSEFNI
Alexander HALL & Co.
1947
VALE OF LENNOX
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
4 March 1909
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
1873
WILLIAM BENTLEY
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
30 January 1919
BALLOCHBUIE
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
1880
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
9 October 1917
LOCH BROOM
Alexander HALL & Co.
1907
ANN FORD MELVILLE
Alexander HALL & Co.
1911
W.S. BURTON
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
1917
LOCH DOON
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
19 September 1907
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
18 December 1930
STAR OF THE ISLES
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
1912
STAR OF THE NORTH
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
3 December 1902
ARCHIMEDES
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
July 1874
URANA
Alexander HALL & Co.
November 1914
BEN LUI
John Lewis & Sons
30 December 1970
FAIRTRY
John Lewis & Sons
1954
RILETTE
Alexander HALL & Co.
1917