QUADRILLE

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

Shipownervessel built for Admiralty

Date15 March 1941

Object NameADMIRALTY TRAWLER

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 154.5' x breadth 27.6' x depth 14.2'
gross tonnage 511 tons

Object numberABDSHIP002756

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 758
Subsequent Names: ELSA (1946); MURTEN (1950); REMEX (1956); GHEDEM (1967)

Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's Register 1994.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Dance class admiralty trawler, an anti-submarine vessel, armament 1 x 4 inch, 3 x 20mm AA.

Owners:
1941: Royal Navy
06/06/1946: Sold (Gerald Toghill (2003), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part One: Admiralty Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 95)
1946: Skips A/S Storhaug, Stavanger, and renamed ELSA.
Diesel fitted 1947.
1950: Keller Shipping Ltd, Basle, renamed MURTEN.
1956: U Gennari Fu Torquato & C. Ancona, renamed REMEX.
1967: De Marzo Bros. Massawa, Ethiopia, renamed GHEDEM.

General History:
A Navy trawler built for anti-submarine duties. Sold to Norwegian mercantile owners in 1946. The navy must have pushed the vessel hard because it was decided to replace her steam machinery with a British auxiliaries engine oil engine 28CSA 7Cylinder 9 3/16 - 16 9/16. The engine was made in 1942, refitted 1947. In 1948 it was converted to a 2 hold general cargo ship. It is not known where conversion was done. It was sold in 1950 to Kellar Shipping Ltd. Basle, Switzerland. It was then sold in 1956 to U. Gennari Fu Torquato & Co. (Rimini, Italy). In Lloyd's 1960 register the ship is now owned by Vincenzo Muro & Figlio (Italy) and new engine installed to a 45A 6 cylinder 320x450mm NE57 Klockner-Humboldt Deutz KLN. New owners were noted between 1960-67 as Giuseppe De Marzo (Genoa, Italy) in 1967 it is now owned by De Marzo Bros. (Massawa, Ethiopia). Renamed Ghedan. The ship last recorded in Lloyds in 1994 read as owned by the last named.

Notes:
One of the two built at Aberdeen from a class of 20.
Engines, single screw reciprocating, 850IHP, 11.5 knots. (Toghill (2003), "Royal Navy Trawlers", p. 95)
Engine replaced by diesel in 1947