WOODSIDE

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

Date1 October 1959

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 98' 9" x breadth 23' 1" x depth 11'
gross tonnage: 190 ton

Object numberABDSHIP002566

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 879
Official Number: 301581
Subsequent Names: BOSTON VICTOR (1963)

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1992.

Propulsion: Motor
Description: Side trawler, forecastle 16', rivetted and welded flush joints.

Owner:
1960: Aberdeen Near Water Trawler Ltd (Manager Don Fishing Co.)
1969: Aberdeen Near Water Ltd under management of B. A. Parkes, Lowestoft.
1977-80: C. F. Paton & Co. Ltd, Lowestoft.
1980-92 owned by Thomas Chalmers, Lowestoft.
No further history under this name.

Notes:
"The first of the new Hall-Economy trawlers, developed after extensive tank testing, is the WOODSIDE [...] the sponsor [...] was Mrs G. D. S. Black, wife of the Chairman of MacFisheries Limited, London"
"Sistership to the COUNTESSWELLS and identical in all respects".
Photographs
i) The WOODSIDE at sea
ii) Mrs G. D. S. Black
iii) Lifting the sub-assembled stern section of the WOODSIDE into position
('Burntisland Shipbuilding Group Journal', vol. 26, no. 4 (April 1961), p. 110)

Oil engine 4SA 6cy 12" x 45" Nat Gas PO Engine Co., Ashton/Lyne.

This vessel is listed in Lloyd's as being built by Alexander Hall & Co. after being taken over by Hall, Russell & Co.