CRIMOND
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date17 August 1899
Object NameFISHING VESSEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 110 3/12' x breadth 21 1/12' x depth 11 7/12'
Gross Tonnage: 173 ton
Gross Tonnage: 173 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001988
Keywords
Yard Number: 321
Official Number: 110851
Fate: Sunk by enemy action (submarine time bombs 60 miles east from Wick), 19 May 1915.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Trawler
Owners:
1899: Fraserburgh & North of Scotland Steam Trawling Company Limited
1909: J. Graham, Hartlepool.
1910: J. Graham & Sons, Hartlepool.
1913: A. Walker, Aberdeen, fishing number A344
Masters:
1902: Master A. Alexander
General History:
She had previously been stranded in February 1912 at Sanday, Orkney. Four members of crew were lost when ship's boat was smashed, one member swam ashore, remaining four saved by Stronsay lifeboat.
Sunk 19 May 1915 while on a fishing trip from Aberdeen; CRIMOND was captured by a German submarine and the crew forced to abandon ship without loss of life. She was then sunk by explosive charges.
("Lloyd's War Losses: The First World War, casualties to shipping through enemy causes 1914-1918" (Lloyd's of London, 1990) p. 13)
1908
