VALE OF LENNOX

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

Date4 March 1909

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 120 1/3' x breadth 23 1/12' x depth 12 3/6'
Gross Tonnage: 233 ton

Object numberABDSHIP002148

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 462.
Subsequent Names: GARDAR LANDNEMI (1912); VALE OF LENNOX (1920); ETHEL IRVIN (1929).

Fate: Scrapped 1951.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Trawler

Owners:
1909: Vale of Leven Steam Fishing Company, Aberdeen, fishing number A256.
1911: Chartered by Scottish Icelandic Fishing Co Ltd to fish Icelandic Waters.
1912: Owner Gardar Gislason Reykjavik, Iceland, renamed "Gardar Landnemi" (RE 148).
1914: Harley & Miller Ltd, Liverpool. Registered at Leith, LH 264.
12/1914: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper, armament 1 x 12 pdr gun and 1 x 7.5 inch anti-submarine bomb thrower. Admiralty no. 991
1919: Returned to owners (Harley & Miller Ltd until around 1928).
1929: T. T. Irvin, Aberdeen, A355.

Note: Engines 81 HP
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 497)