NAIRANA
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date11 November 1913
Object NameFISHING VESSEL
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 117' 8" x breadth 22' 6" x depth 14' 6"
Gross Tonnage: 225 ton
Gross Tonnage: 225 ton
Object numberABDSHIP002232
Keywords
Yard Number: 537.
Official Number (IMO): 128766.
Subsequent Names: NAIRANA II (03/1917); NAIRANA (1919); VIKING ENDEAVOUR (1947).
Fate: Broken up by Shipbreaking Industries Ltd., Rosyth in 1960.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Trawler, side, steam, screw, steel. With raised quarter deck 9” height to foreside of winch. Single geared winch, 1000 fathoms each barrel. Acetylene gas lighting. Spare propeller. Fish and ice rooms insulated with cork. 2 Lamont pumps.
Owners:
1913: Charles T. Pannell Esq., 31 Bergholt Crest, Stamford Hill, London for Brand & Co., Milford Haven.
11/1915: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper, armament 1 x 6 pdr. gun. Admiralty no. 2513 .
26/11/1917: Owners Mills Steam Co., 5 Fen Court, Fenchurch Street, London.
20/02/1918: Owners Henry Smethurst, Henry Carl Smethurst, John Wint Smethurst and William Wint Smethurst, Grimsby. Registered at Grimsby, GY630.
1919: Returned to owners, Trawlers (White Sea & Grimsby) Ltd, Grimsby.
11/1939: Requisitioned and designated as an armed patrol vessel. Returned to owners, February 1940.
08/1942: Owners Hull Merchants Amalgamated Trawlers Ltd, Hull. Registered at Hull, H528.
1944: George Robb & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen.
1947: Registered in Aberdeen, as VIKING ENDEAVOUR, A616.
1955-56: class withdrawn.
General History:
20/11/1913: Launched. Named by Mrs Scullion, Aberdeen after the Tasmanian name for a wedge tailed sea eagle.
03/1917: Renamed NAIRANA II to free name for a seaplane carrier under construction.
03/02/1940: Attacked by enemy aircraft, bombs and gunfire.
07/09/1941: Damaged by German bombing seven to eight miles off Myggenaes, Faroes.
Notes:
Steam by screw, inverted, surface condensing, triple expansion engine, 12” x 20” x 34” with 24” stroke. 432 i.h.p., 75 r.h.p., by H.R.
Boiler Number: 1.S.B; Heating Area (ft2) 1355; Diameter; 12’ 9”; Length 10’ 3”
Furnaces: 3 plain welded 3’ 2½” dia; Pressure (p.s.i.) 180
Propeller Diameter: 8’ 3¼” solid cast iron
Cost: £6,724
See also and references:
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 312)
History (CS) - http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=51896&vessel=NAIRANA
History (LL) - http://www.llangibby.eclipse.co.uk/accidents%20&%20incidents/nairana.htm
WW I Service (NH) - http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishShips-Dittmar2.htm#N
1940 Attack - http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/damaged_merchant_ships.htm
1941 Attack - http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-4109-36SEP01.htm
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