IVERNIA

Shipbuildervessel built by Hall, Russell & Company, Limited (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)

Date1900

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 103 3/12' x breadth 20 1/3' x depth 11 7/12'
Gross Tonnage: 155 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001995

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 328
Official Number: 113063
Subsequent Name: RUSMAT NO.5 (1913)

Fate: Sunk by Russian destroyers at Karadeniz Ereğli, Black Sea Coast of Turkey, 5 May 1915.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw side trawler.

Owners:
03/03/1900: Irvin Steam Fishing Company Limited, South Shields, Registered at North Shields, SN 53.
1913: Turkish Government - Gümrük Dairesi (Customs Dept.), Constantinople, renamed RUSMAT No.5.
08/1914: Transferred to Ottoman Navy.

General History:
01/02/1900: Launched in a twin launch with the BEN ATTOW. Named by Mrs J. W. Simpson, wife of the manager of the Prince Line of trawlers.
13/05/1906: Stranded at Noness Head, Shertland
20/05/1906: Refloated by NORSEMAN and GRANITE CITY and taken to Lerwick.
18/12/1906: Ashore near Rive beacon, Sanday Orkney.
09/1914: Converted to a minesweeper for the Turkish navy.
01/1915: Sent to Karadeniz Ereğli (Black Sea), disarmed.

Notes:
Hall, Russell Order Book: - 100A 1 at Lloyds. 7” x 12” double barrel steam trawl winch. Duplex steam pump. No trawl gear.
Sister to Yard No. 329, BEN ATTOW, Yard No. 330, IRIS and Yard No. 331, BEN DORAN.
Engine details: Steam by screw, inverted, surface condensing, triple expansion engine, 11½” x 18” x 31” with 21” stroke, 320 h, 50 r.h.p., 44 n.h.p. by H.R.
Boiler: number 1 steel S.B.; heating area (ft^2) 925; diameter 10' 6"; length 9' 3"; furnaces 2 plain welded 3’ 2” dia.; pressure (p.s.i.) 180
Propeller: 8’ 5” diameter, solid, cast iron.

Cost & extras: £4,500

See also:
History (CS) - http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.phpyear_built=&builder=&ref=51687&vessel=IVERNIA

Wikipedia (WK) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_patrol_vessels_of_the_Ottoman_steam_navy