STRATHELLA
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date29 September 1913
Object NameFISHING VESSEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 115 3/12' x breadth 22 1/12' x depth 13'
Gross Tonnage: 210 ton
Gross Tonnage: 210 ton
Object numberABDSHIP002227
Keywords
Yard Number: 533.
Fate: unknown after 1961
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Trawler, riveted construction.
Owners:
1913: Aberdeen Steam Trawling and Fishing Company, fishing number, A586.
08/1914: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper, armament 2 x 6 pdr. Admiralty no. 101
1919: Returned to owners,
July 1940: Requisitioned and converted to armed patrol vessel.
1946: returned to owners.
1946: Clove Fishing Co (Manager D. M. Wood, Aberdeen)
1959: sold to the John Lewis Fishing Co.
General History:
06/1940: Based at Akureyn, Iceland for harbour defence.
1943: Taken in hand at the end of the year at North Shields for refitting. Completed refitting, 1944. On the way back to Iceland, vessel was detailed as part of escort for Convoy UR.105 from Loch Ewe to Iceland, sailing on 11 January. Enroute the convoy encountered very severe weather and was obliged to heave to and in doing so STRATHELLA lost contact with convoy. Shortly afterwards, vessel suffered an engine breakdown and when this was finally rectified, ran out of fuel. Adrift and with wireless destroyed by severe weather the Admiralty posted the vessel missing and relatives of the company were informed accordingly. Vessel was finally rescued off Greenland on 13 February, over a month after sailing from Loch Ewe.
Vessel foundered off Iceland on 1 July 1944.
Wreck raised in August 1946 and returned to owners Clove Fishing Co. (Manager D. M. Wood, Aberdeen).
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), pp. 463-4)
Engine: Triple expansion engines 3 cylinders of 12", 20" & 34" diameters, 23" stroke, by Hall, Russell & Co.
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