BEN GAIRN

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

Shipownervessel built for Richard Irvin & Sons Ltd

Date17 October 1916

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 122 1/3' x breadth 22 1/12' x depth 13 3/12'
Gross Tonnage: 204 ton

Object numberABDSHIP002287

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 590.

Fate: Sunk by a parachute mine off Lowestoft, 4 May 1941.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler.

Owners:
1916: Built for Richard Irvin & Sons of North Shields, registered at Aberdeen, A738.
11/1916: Requisitioned and converted into a minesweeper, armament 1 x 12 pdr and 1 x 7.5 inch anti-submarine bomb thrower. Admiralty no. 3314.
1919: Returned to owners.
06/1940: Requisitioned and again converted into a minesweeper.

Engine 78 HP
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 43)