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WILLIAM BIGGS
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Owner
Admiralty
Date16 August 1917
Object NameADMIRALTY TRAWLER
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 115 3/12' x breadth 22 1/12' x depth 13'
Gross Tonnage: 203 ton
Gross Tonnage: 203 ton
Object numberABDSHIP002316
Keywords
Yard Number: 616.
Subsequent Name: KINGSCOURT (1932).
Fate: unknown
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Strath Class admiralty trawler, screw, steel, armament 1 x 12 pdr.
Owners:
1917: Completed for the Lord Commissioners for the Admiralty. Admiralty no. 3632.
1922: the Admiralty sold this vessel to the Queen Steam Fishing Company, Grimsby. GY248
11/1939: Requisitioned for use as an armed patrol vessel, converted to minesweeping in April 1940, and a barrage balloon vessel in 1944. Pennant no. FY.885.
09/1945: Returned to owners.
1953: North Star Steam Fishing Co. Ltd, Grimsby.
(Gerald Toghill (2003), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part One: Admiralty Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 190)
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