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KILBRIDE

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

Shipownervessel built for Admiralty

Date21 August 1918

Object NamePATROL VESSEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 170' 5" x breadth 30' 1" x depth 16'
Gross Tonnage: 654 ton

Object numberABDSHIP002350

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 637.
Subsequent Names: SCOTSGAP (1920); REBUS (1922); POGGIOREALE (1925); NINO DI GALLURA (1928); ALFREDO (1933)

Fate: Sunk by torpedo attack from aircraft 20 January 1943 (source: wrecksite)

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Kil Class patrol gunboat, steel, screw, 1 deck, fitted with electric light..

Owners:
1918: The Admiralty
14/02/1920: sold to Robinson, Brown and Joplin (J. J. Colledge and Ben Wardlow (2006), 'Ships of the Royal Navy' (Chatham Publishing, London), p. 185)
1920: Lloyd's Register of Shipping listed owner B. Bureston, manager Joplin & Hull, registered at Newcastle.
09/1922: Sold by Joplin and Hull to German buyers.
09/1925: Sold by Johannes Ick. G m. b. H. Hamburg to V Quargnali, Trieste.
1928: Sold to Sarde FS. Italy.
1933: Dani & Co, Genoa.

General History:
January 1919 during widespread Communist revolts across Britain, 'at Milford Haven the sailors on HMS KILBRIDE refused to do their watches for the rotten pay they were receiving, refused to go to sea and hoisted the red flag' [http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr226/rosenberg.htm]

Steam triple expansion engine, 16" x 26" x 44" with 26" stroke. 1466 i.h.p.
Engines by Campbell & Isherwood, boilers by Denny.