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DAVID POLLOCK
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Shipownervessel built for
North Thames Gas Board
(London, England)
Date9 March 1954
Object NameCARGO VESSEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 320' x breadth 46' 1" x depth 22' 5"
Gross Tonnage: 3332 ton
Gross Tonnage: 3332 ton
Object numberABDSHIP002528
Keywords
Yard Number: 836
Official Number: 186121
Fate: unknown
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Cargo vessel (collier), 1 deck, machinery aft, cruiser stern.
Owners:
1955: North Thames Gas Board, Stephenson Clarke Ltd managers.
Triple expansion engines by North East Marine Engine Co. Sunderland, with 19", 31" and 54" cylinders, 39" stroke, 2 single boilers.
10/03/1954:
'The S.S. DAVID POLLOCK, built by Messrs Hall Russell and Co. Ltd. Aberdeen, for the North Thames Gas Board, was launched at Aberdeen yesterday, the naming ceremony being performed by Mrs Edwin Bayliss, wife of a member of the North Thames Gas Board.
Right - Mrs Bayliss & Mrs Howard Johnson, managing director of Messrs Hall Russell & Co. Ltd. give three cheers as the ship is successfully launched.'
(Aberdeen Press & Journal)
Mr Edwin Bayliss was a World War I veteran, where he lost an arm, and later went on to be Chairman of London County Council, Chairman of the National
Assistance Board, a Justice of the Peace, a Labour MP and to be awarded the OBE. (Source Mrs G Tanner, great niece)
15 February 1858
1841
