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ABERDEEN VENTURER
ABERDEEN VENTURER
ABERDEEN VENTURER

ABERDEEN VENTURER

Shipbuilder (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date9 June 1960
Object NameFISHING VESSEL
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 115'10" x breadth 26' x depth 13'3"
gross tonnage: 298 ton
Object numberABDSHIP002572
About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 885

Fate: Broken up in UK, March 1980.

Propulsion: Motor
Description: Trawler

Owners:
1960: Aberdeen Motor Trawlers Limited, fishing number, A488
1973: Aberdeen Near Water Trawlers (part of John Wood Group).

General History:
31/08/1976:
account of how the ABERDEEN VENTURER (owners given as John Wood Group, Aberdeen) and the BEN TARBET collided outside Peterhead's 'Bay of Refuge'. ABERDEEN VENTURER's skipper was charged with culpable homicide as two crew members of BEN TARBET were lost - but they denied the charges.
(Aberdeen Press & Journal)

Classed by Lloyd's Register until 18 November 1977.

Notes:
"Mrs. C. E. Miller, wife of one of the owning's company's directors carried out the naming ceremony".
Photographs in the volume include:
i) "Mrs. C. E. Miller speeds Aberdeen Venturer down the ways",
ii) "The launch of the ship"
iii) "Entering Aberdeen Harbour after first fishing trip".
('Burntisland Shipbuilding Group Journal', vol. 26, no. 4 (April 1961), p. 117)
1972: Special survey carried out.


BEN TARBERT
John Lewis & Sons
1960
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
15 December 1959
ABERGELDIE
DUTHIE
April 1869
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
1873
BEN ARDNA
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
9 December 1912
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
22 September 1965
ANN LAW
15 February 1858
HEATHER BELL
Walter Hood & Co.
1851
BEN TARBERT
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
14 August 1912
PRINCESS ROYAL
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
1960
AGNES BLAIKIE
Walter Hood & Co.
1841
CHURCHILL
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
1883
FAIR ISLE
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
10 March 1909
ABERDEEN EXPLORER
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
17 May 1965
"Thermopylae" - Clipper Ship
Aberdeen White Star Line (George Thompson & Co)
1868
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
1917
CAIRNBULG
DUTHIE
March 1874
b/w photograph of clipper ship 'yalaroi'
Alexander HALL & Co.
1885