HENRY BUTCHER
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Owner
Admiralty
Date26 March 1918
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 numberABDSHIP002336
Keywords
Yard Number: 628
Official Number: 143468
Subsequent Names: RIVER TAY (1919).
Fate: drove ashore and wrecked on Ruhna an Ridire, Sound of Mull, in a gale after her engine broke down, 29 November 1943.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Strath Class admiralty trawler, screw, steel, armament 1 x 12 pdr.
Owners:
26/04/1918: Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty no. 3638.
1919: Registered at London for commercial sale.
1919: Owners Montrose Fishing Co. Ltd., Montrose. Renamed RIVER TAY. Registered at Montrose, ME112.
08/10/1921: Montrose Fishing Co. in financial difficulties. To settle his claims, Mr Charles Paton of Glasgow is to be offered £7,000, or the transfer of ownership of the trawler RIVER TAY to him.
1922: Owners Paton’s Trawlers Ltd., Glasgow.
1924: Charles F. Paton, Glasgow.
03/10/1925: Registered at Graton GN54.
1926: George Gallie Paton, Granton.
1943: Owners Ardrossan Trawling Co. Ltd., Glasgow. PoR Granton.
General History:
Ran ashore and wrecked on Ruhna an Ridire, Sound of Mull. She is reported as having thrown all her bunker coal overboard and refloated herself, but Lloyd's Casualty Returns suggests she remained on the rocks very close to where the 1655 frigate DARTMOUTH and the coaster BALLISTA were lost. She was on a fishing trip from Granton.
Notes:
Named for Henry Butcher (26), born Shields, Able Seaman HMS VICTORY. Fell overboard and drowned 25 January 1807.
Engine details: Steam by screw, inverted, surface condensing, triple expansion engine, 12” x 20” x 34” with 23” stroke, 424 i.h.p., 57 RHP by Hall, Russell.
Boiler: number 1 S.B.; heating area (ft^2) 1347; diameter 12' 6"; length 10'; furnaces 2 plain welded 2' 11" dia.; pressure (p.s.i) 180
Propellor: diameter 8' 4", solid cast iron.
See also:
History (CS): - http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=51987&vessel=HENRY+BUTCHER
History (GT): - http://www.grantontrawlers.com/Trawlers/River%20Tay%20GN%2054.htm
WW I Service (NH): - http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishShips-Dittmar2.htm
Wrecksite (WS): - https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?62504
Cannmore (CN): - https://canmore.org.uk/site/102572/river-tay-eilean-rubha-an-ridire-sound-of-mull
24 January 1914
March 1917
