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

Date27 December 1906

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 115 3/12' x breadth 21 5/6' x depth 12 3/6'
Gross Tonnage: 196 ton

Object numberABDSHIP002098

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 418.

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1952.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Trawler

Owners:
1907: Ross Steam Trawl Fishing Company Limited, Aberdeen, fishing number A120
1914: J. & W. Lyle, Granton, GN14.
10/1914: Requisitioned by the Admiralty, admiralty no. 633
11/1918: Converted to minesweeper.
1919: Returned to owners.
1926: Stephen F. Co. Ltd, Aberdeen, A81.
1943: J. C. Wilson, Plymouth.
1948: A. H. C. Wilson, Plymouth.
1952: J. C. Wilson, Plymouth.

General History:
10/1914: converted to minesweeper.
03/1917: Converted to Q ship and re-armed, 1 x 4 inch, 1 x 12 pdr, 1 x 6 pdr.
11/1918: Converted back to a minesweeper.
(Q ship names: ALDABARAN; BENDIGO II; ETHULWULF GENERAL; HUNTER and NEW COMET).
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 403)