PARKMORE

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

Date7 September 1915

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 115 3/12' x breadth 22 1/12' x depth 12 9/12'
Gross Tonnage: 199 ton

Object numberABDSHIP002279

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 582.
Subsequent Names: OCEAN NYMPH (1935); BEN TORC (1936)

Fate: unknown.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler, riveted construction.

Owners:
1915: Built for Robert H. Davison, Hartlepool, HL76.
10/1915: Requisitioned and converted into a minesweeper, armament 1 x 6 pdr AA. Admiralty no. 164.
1919: Returned to owners.
1930: D. Dow, Granton, GN66.
1935: The same owners but renamed OCEAN NYMPH.
1936: R. Irvin & Sons Ltd and renamed BEN TORC SN99.
1939: Requisitioned and converted into a minesweeper, pennant no. FY.807.
1946: Returned to owners.
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 348)

Triple expansion engines 3 cylinders of 12", 20" & 34" diameter, length of stroke 24" by J. Abernethy & Co. Aberdeen.