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Shipbuilder (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date1900
Object NameFISHING VESSEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 103 3/12' x breadth 20 7/12' x depth 11 5/6'
Gross Tonnage: 160 tons
Object numberABDSHIP002004
About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 335.
Subsequent Names: BEN HOPE (by 1915); ETENIA (by 1932).

Fate: unknown after 1932

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Trawler

Owners:
1900: Union Steam Fishing Co, Ltd.
later part of R. Irvin & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen.
1915: J. Lewis, Aberdeen.
1917: Requisitioned into the fishery reserve.
1919: returned to owners.
1919: Owner Crawford Trawlers Ltd. Scarborough.
1925-26: Owner H. W. Barker, Lowestoft.
1927: James Johnson Fish Selling Co. Ltd, Lowestoft.
1929: Hope Steam Fishing Co. Ltd, Lowestoft.
11/1931: Sold by Hope Steam Fishing Co. to French buyers.
1932: D. Testulat, Dieppe.

Note:
By 1939 Irvin had a new ship also called the BEN HOPE.
BEN IVER
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
10 December 1913
FAIR ISLE
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
10 March 1909
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
31 October 1917
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
1917
REFLORESCO
Alexander HALL & Co.
1924
POINTER
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
21 February 1906
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
22 September 1965
PRINCESS ROYAL
John Lewis & Sons
1952
M. A. DODDS
Alexander HALL & Co.
1892
KITTY
Alexander HALL & Co.
1897
WOODSIDE
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
1 October 1959
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
25 April 1917
LANNER
1912
LAPWING
Alexander HALL & Co.
1896
GALERNA
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
24 November 1927
MICHAEL BRION
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
12 June 1919
CETONIA
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
23 December 1904
ALBATROSS
Alexander HALL & Co.
February 1906
CAPTAIN FREMANTLE
John Lewis & Sons
1959
MIST
John Lewis & Sons
1918