KARLSEFNI
Shipbuildervessel built by
Alexander HALL & Co.
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1947
Object NameFISHING VESSEL
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 175 5/12' x breadth 30 1/12' x depth 16'
gross tonnage: 657 ton
gross tonnage: 657 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001605
Keywords
Yard Number: 719
Fate: Broken up in UK before end quarter June 1973.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler
Owners:
1947: Icelandic Government, Reykjavík.
1949: Karlsefni h/f, Reykjavík
Notes: Vessel was the fourth of seven built for the same owners.
The engine was built by A. Hall & Co. and was a triple expansion engine with 16½", 28½" and 47" cylinders, 30" stroke, 1245 HP. 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 430
Fitted with DF (Direction Finder), ESD (Echo-Sounding Device) Radar, 100 A1, LMC (Lloyd's Machinery Certificate)
1972/73 last registered in Lloyd's.
April 1827
1870
4 February 1920
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