BARFOOT
Shipbuildervessel built by
John Lewis & Sons
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1907 - 1976)
Owner
Royal Navy
Date1943
Object NameBOOM DEFENCE VESSEL
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 150 1/3' x breadth 32 1/12' x depth 17 1/12'
Object numberABDSHIP000112
Keywords
Yard Number: 166
Fate: Sold to be broken up at Ward, Inverkeithing, 23 May 1977.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Bar class boom defence vessel
Owner:
1942: Royal Navy
General History:
25/09/1942: Launched.
02/03/1943: Full power trial in Torry Dock.
1949: Working as a floating laboratory.
30/06/1972:
In June 1972, BARFOOT was based at the Rosyth dockyard but was due to be retired within the next year or so. 'she was built at the Torry yard of John Lewis and Sons Ltd for the unspectacular but vital wartime role of operating the boom defences guarding the approaches to harbours and anchorages. In peacetime, she has been a Jill-of-all-trades attached to the Naval Construction and Research Establishment at Rosyth. Survey work required her recent presence in the Sound of Raasay and off Rum, where a 10 ton charge, one of the biggest attempted, was detonated. It was BARFOOT'S job to lay the charge'.
(Press & Journal)
Note: Engine number 243, boilers by Scockton Chemical and Riley Boilers Ltd.
