DROFN

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

Date28 August 1950

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 183 11/12' x breadth 30 1/12' x depth 16'
Gross Tonnage: 681 ton

Object numberABDSHIP002518

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 826
IMO Number: 5617205
Subsequent Names: JON BALDVINSSON (1951)

Fate: Wrecked off Reykjanes, Iceland, 31 March 1955.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Trawler (side) with a cruiser stern.

Owners:
1950: Built for the Icelandic Government, but transferred to commercial owners and renamed at registration.
1951: Owners Baejarutgerd Reykjavikur, Beykjavik, renamed JON BALDVINSSON.

General History:
29/03/1950: Keel laid on Berth No. 1
28/08/1950: Launched. Named DROFN by Mrs Gosli Johsson, wife of the chief technical adviser to the Icelandic Government and member of the Icelandic Parliament.
04/05/1951: Handed over.
16/06/1951: Sailed.
31/03/1955: Wrecked off Reykjanes, Iceland.

Notes:
Sister to HREFNA, Yard No. 824 and OLAFUR JOHANNESSEN, Yard No. 825.
Launched as the DROFN.

"The third of the modern steam trawlers [...] built by Hall Russell & Co Ltd for the Icelandic Government [...]. Launched 28/8/1950. Named by Mrs Gosli Johsson, wife of chief technical advisor to the Icelandic Government, and a member of the Icelandic Parliament".
Photographs include one of the party attending the launch, and DROFN nearing the end of the launching ways.
(Burntisland & Hall Russell Shipyard Journal, vol. 22, no. 1, (1951), p. 22)

"There is a quick-freeze plant [...] (also a) steam fish meal plant [...] also a cod liver oil plant".
Burntisland & Hall Russell Shipyard Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, (1951), p. 50)

Steam by screw, inverted, surface condensing, triple expansion engine, 16½” x 28½” x 47” with 30” stroke, 1240 i.h.p. Hall, Russell Engine No. 5/48
Oil fired boiler and superheater, by Barclay Curle, No. 48/11.
Boiler: 1 single boiler; heating area (ft^2) 4035; diameter 16' 0" ; length 11' 0" ; furnaces 3 Deighton section 45¾” dia. ; pressure (p.s.i.) 225
Propeller: 11’ 3”, 4-bladed solid manganese bronze.

See also:
History (CS): - http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?official_number=&imo=&builder=2022&builder_eng=&year_built=1951&launch_after=&launch_before=&role=&type_ref1=&propulsion=&owner=&port=&flag=&disposal=&lost=&ref=52171&vessel=JON+BALDVINSSON

Wrecksite (WS): - https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?237787

Photographs in Aberdeen City Archive: - HR/2/7/401/6 and 479/1 & /2.
Aberdeen City and Shire Archive HR/2/7/401/6 (Publication plate- rough proof.)

http://trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=107538&title=j-f3n-baldvinsson&cat=516
http://trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=131464&title=j-f3n-baldvinsson&cat=1170