GIPSY

Shipbuildervessel built by DUTHIE (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date11 August 1883

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumIRON

ClassificationsShip

DimensionsLength: 126.5'
Breadth: 19.3'
Depth:10.1'
Gross Tonnage: 160

Object numberABDSHIP000580

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: John Duthie & Sons.
Official number: 84375
Subsequent Names: SUD (1903).

Fate: Demolished in 1936.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Iron screw steam trawler, one deck, two masts, schooner rigged, round stern, clench built, no gallery, no head, iron frame.

Owners:
1883: George Leslie/ W. Leslie Steamship Co. Ltd.
19/03/1887: Re-registered at Aberdeen. New owners listed as:
William Leslie, shipowner, 20 shares; David Littlejohn, advocate, 4 shares; John Leslie, manufacturer, 4 shares; George Govan Wilkie, bank agent, 4 shares; John Crombie Jnr., manufacturer, 8 shares; John Crombie, manufacturer, 4 shares; William Duthie, enginee, 2 shares; Theodore Crombie, 4 shares; Charles Orten, doctor, 4 shares; Richard John William Orten, surgeon with the army, 4 shares, Charlotte Croom Brett, widow, 4 shares.
09/02/1893: Hall Russell supply new cast iron propeller under Order No. 00/92. Cost £23.10, £4.10 extras. Bore out and key seat cut.
(Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1902: Converted to tug. Owners Schiaffino & Jouvet, Agiers.
1903: Owner J. A. Deiss Demange freres & Cie, Marseilles.
1930: Owners, Soc. Anon. Italiana Lavori Marittimi, Naples.

Engine Details:
Steam, screw, two, compound, inverted, surface condensing, direct acting, 19"x38" with 27" stroke, 62 H.P. by HR.
3 p.f. furnaces with 939 feet square heating area and 100 psi.