KOORAH

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

Date5 February 1912

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 117 3/12' x breadth 22 7/12' x depth 13'
Gross Tonnage: 227 ton

Object numberABDSHIP002195

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 505
Official Number: 128760

Fate: Went ashore on a reef near Dunnet Head, 11 February 1954.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Trawler

Owners:
04/03/1912: Brand & Co. Milford, registered at Milford Haven, M120.
08/1914: Requisitioned by Admiralty, minesweeper. Admiralty No. 324.
26/11/1917: The Mills Steamship Co., 5 Fen Court, Fenchurch Street, London E6
18/01/1918: T. Robinson, Grimsby.
1919: Returned to owners.
20/03/1919: Registered at Grimsby, GY122.
05/1919: Edward Ernest Cox, Grimsby.
27/08/1919: Ralph Cox, Grimsby.
08/02/1933: Earl Steam Fishing Co. Ltd., Grimsby. 23/01/1935: Philip & George Main Liston, Granton. Registered at Granton, GN14.
1940: Carnie & Gibb Ltd., Granton.
10/04/1941: Walker Steam Trawl Fishing Co. Ltd., Aberdeen.
10/05/1941: Registered at Aberdeen, A249.
13/05/1944: A. & M. Smith Ltd., Hull. Registered at Hull, H77.
16/03/1946: Brebner Fishing Co. Ltd., Aberdeen. Registered at Aberdeen, A18.

General History:
05/02/1912: Launched. Named by Miss Hunter, Temora, Cults.
22/02/1912: Trial trip in Aberdeen Bay.
02/03/1912: First landing at Milford Haven
08/1914: Serving in the Royal Navy based Egypt and served at Gallipoli.
11/03/1915: Rescued the 11 crew of the minesweeper MANX HERO, sunk by a swept mine, while under fire from shore batteries in the Dardanelles.
04/04/1915: HUMPHRIES, Abraham (20) Stoker 1st Class, RN (SS/112133), died of wounds in the Dardanelles (Naval-History lists illness). Son of Alfred and Jane Humphries, 23 Fllring Street, Corporation Road, Newport. Native of Bradley, Wolverhampton.
07/02/1927: Arrives at Grimsby with considerable weather damage.
11/02/1954: Ran ashore at Dunnet Head. All crew saved by seine net boat OUR LASSIE and landed at Scrabster. Salvage failed and vessel sank.

Notes:
Koorah is a homestead in Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne.

H.R. Order Book: - C.T. Tammell Esq. of Brand & Co., Milfordhaven. 31 Bergholt Crescent, Stamford Hill, London. Length, 115 ft scored out in o and 117 substituted.
Raised quarter deck to be 9” high to foreside of winch. Double geared “Strath” winch 100 fathoms on each barrel. Acetylene gas for lighting. Spare propeller. Fish and ice rooms insulated with cork. 2 Lamont’s duplex pumps 1 - 5” x 3½” x 6” and 1 - 5” x 5” x 6”.
Continuous liner tailshaft.

Engine details: Steam by screw, inverted, surface condensing, triple expansion engine, 12” x 20” x 34” with 24” stroke, 408 i.h.p., 76 r.h.p. by Hall, Russell.
Boiler: number 1 S.B.; heating area (ft^2) 1355; diameter 12' 9"; length 10' 3"; pressure (p.s.i.) 180; furnaces 3 plain welded 3’ 2½” dia, Sturrock’s bridges
Propeller: Single screw, 8’ 4” diameter, solid cast iron, 4-bladed.

Cost & extras: £5850 Extra for 177ft boat £50.0.0 (See letter 23.10.11)

History compiled from: -
“Swept Channels”, Taffrail, p.147.
http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=51864&vessel=KOORAH
http://www.grantontrawlers.com/Trawlers/Koorah%20GN%2014.htm
http://www.llangibby.eclipse.co.uk/accidents%20&%20incidents/koorah.htm
http://www.llangibby.eclipse.co.uk/milfordtrawlers/accidents%20&%20incidents/koorah.htm
http://hulltrawler.net/Sidewinder/Vessel%20-%20K/KOORAH%20H77.htm
http://www.naval-history.net/WW1Battle1503Dardanelles1.htm (10.03.1915)
http://forum.gallipoli-association.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=921&title=trawler-koorah-minesweeper
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/77605263
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=DOM19180528.2.41&l=mi&e=-------10--11----0eure+french+war+ship--
http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?155214
http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/222205/details/koorah+sherrie+geo+dunnet+head+pentland+firth/