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BOSTON METEOR
BOSTON METEOR
BOSTON METEOR

BOSTON METEOR

Shipbuilder (Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date21 December 1949
Object NameFISHING VESSEL
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 134 1/3' x breadth 25 7/12' x depth 14'
Gross Tonnage: 386 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001617
About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 731
Official Number: 183433
Subsequent Names: YARBORA (1951); ZARBORA (1952)

Fate: Scrapped in Canada 1969 (see note)

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler, part electric welded construction.

Owners:
1950: Boston Deep Sea Fishing and Ice Co. Ltd., Manager B. A. Parkes, registered in Hull under the Canadian flag.
1952: Fisheries Products of St. John’s, Newfoundland. Registered in St. Johns but under the British flag.
1967: Now Canadian flagged although it retains the same official number.
1975: Fishery Products LTD, PO Box 500, and O’Leary Avenue, St. John’s, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Notes:
ZARBORA appears in the 1983 Lloyd's Casualty returns as gaving been broken up 1969 (p. 142). It seems to have continued to be in the register as if it still existed for a decade after it was scrapped,
1952: Change of name from YARBORA to ZARBORA may be due to misspelling at the first change, same owners. Class withdrawn at owners request in February 1954. Still under the British flag.
Triple expansion engines with 13", 21½" and 35" cylinders, 26" stroke. Boiler 14'0" diameter, 10'9" length, 220 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Fitted for oil fuel with a flash point above 150 degrees.
Engine number 443
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1955
PRINCESS ROYAL
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1952
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1956
VENDAVAL
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10 April 1956
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1891
RED CREST
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1955
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ABERGELDIE
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WILLIAM PANTON
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1845
ALFRED
1804
FOREMOST 43
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1928
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ARKWRIGHT
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RUBY
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