ABERDEEN EXPLORER

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

Date17 May 1965

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 134 5/6' x breadth 29 1/12' x depth 15'
Gross Tonnage: 425 ton

Object numberABDSHIP002611

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 926
Date of Launch: 17 May 1965
Subsequent Names: BOSTON EXPLORER (1968); GRAMPIAN EXPLORER (1979)

Fate: Extant 2010

Propulsion: Motor
Description: Trawler

Owners:
1964: Northern Trawlers Ltd.
1967: Saint Andrew's Steam Fishing Co. Ltd (Manager B. A. Parkes)
1968: Boston Deep Sea Fisheries Ltd, Fleetwood and renamed BOSTON EXPLORER, fishing number FD15
1979: G. Craig, Aberdeen and renamed GRAMPIAN EXPLORER.
2008: Owned by Kurt Linderhaus, Wangerland

General History:
Sponsor at naming ceremony was Mrs B. A. Parkes.
ABERDEEN EXPLORER is designed for fishing from both sides. Has an insulated fishroom - capacity of about 11,500 cubic feet.
Spacious and comfortable accommodation for crew of 18.
Diesel engines.
Photos:
(1) The Sponsor
(2) Sliding gracefully into the River Dee
(3) Leaving her home port
('Burntisland Shipbuilding Group Journal', vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 14-15)

ABERDEEN EXPLORER was built using the same hull design as the PRINCE PHILIP, Yard Number 905, with changes being made to the superstructure and fishing layout: on PRINCE PHILIP fishing was only carried out on the starboard side, while the ABERDEEN EXPLORER could fish port and starboard. On PRINCE PHILIP more accommodation was provided. The wheelhouse front on PRINCE PHILIP sloped from the bottom out and on ABERDEEN EXPLORER the wheelhouse sloped back inward.
ABERDEEN EXPLORER was converted from fishing to standby work in 1978.

GRAMPIAN EXPLORER spotted at Wewelsfleth, near Peters Werft, The Netherlands in September 2008. Listed as for sale as an operational vessel for 99,000 Euros.
IMO 6514091
Still working as in Lloyds 2010 Register, as being owned by Kurt Linderhaus, Hamburg, Germany, as diving vessel. It has retained its name of GRAMPIAN EXPLORER from its previous Aberdeen owners, whose prefix on all its ships was "GRAMPIAN". North Star Shipping Co. have a new ship called GRAMPIAN EXPLORER (built 2003).