GILIA
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date18 February 1946
Object NameFISHING VESSEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength: 160 5/12' x breadth 28 1/12' x depth 15'
Gross Tonnage: 515 ton
Gross Tonnage: 515 ton
Object numberABDSHIP002489
Keywords
Yard Number: 793
Fate: Last mention in Lloyd's Register 1968-69.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Trawler
Owners:
1946: Irvin & Johnson (South Africa) Ltd.
Notes:
At launch, naming ceremony performed by Mrs E. M. Cradock, daughter of Sir John Irvin. 15th vessel being built by Hall Russell & Co., Ltd for these owners.
Modern design, "with a fishroom specially insulated for work in S. African waters and an insulated room for offal... superior accommodation for officers and crew, amounting to 31 in all..."
Triple expansion steam engines.
Photos of:
(1) Naming ceremony
(2) GILIA at sea
(Burntisland Hall Russell Shipyard Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 38-39)
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