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

Object numberABDSHIP001605

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
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.

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