ADVENTURE

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

Date12 March 1906

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 110' x breadth 21' 8" x depth 12' 3"
Gross Tonnage: 184 ton

Object numberABDSHIP002079

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 398.
Subsequent Names: ADVENTURE II (1914); ADVENTURE (10/1917)

Fate: damaged by mine and foundered, 6 January 1922. The crew were at breakfast when the mine exploded.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler.

Owners:
1906: Henry A. Tweddell, Hartlepool.
1906: A. G. Brown of Granton.
1912: Richard Watson Mason and John Wright, registered at Fleetwood 1912, fishing number FD154.
1914: Brooklyn Trawling Co. Ltd, Fleetwood
1915-18: requisitioned by Royal Navy and converted to minesweeper, Admiralty number 2771.
03/1917: Margaret Fawns, Granton.
10/1917: Archibald Glen Brown, Granton.
01/1920: John Mitchell, Peterhead.
02/1920: registered at Peterhead, PD239.
1921 sold to Imperial Cold Storage and Supply Co. Ltd, Aberdeen.

Notes:
In January 1914, tonnage altered to 71.05net under Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
Wreck found 24 August 2007; bell recovered. (http://buchandivers.com/adventure.html).

Source: Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 3 and 'Lloyd's Register of Shipping'