VERDURE

Date1908

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 84' x breadth 18.10' x depth 8.80'
gross tonnage 97 tons

Object numberABDSHIP000752

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co.
Yard Number: 318

Fate: Registry cancelled 7 July 1937 - vessel sold for scrap.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Herring drifter

Owners:
1908: John S. Summers, A. Buchan, J. Buchan and W. Buchan of Peterhead, fishing number, PD 525.
1913: John S. Summers, 126 Queen Street, Peterhead. (Merchant Navy List)
14/04/1913: A. Strachan, John Whyte, James Duthie, Gilbert Duthie and William Benzie and re-registered in Fraserburgh, FR 557.
1915: A. S. Gow, Fraserburgh.
1916: Merchant Navy List gives owner as Wm Benzie, Fraserburgh and Manager as James M. Duthie, 'Belmont', King Edward Street, Fraserburgh.
1915-19: Requisitioned for War Service as an anti-submarine net vessel fitted with 3-pounder gun.
1919: James Duthie, Gilbert Duthie of Inverallochy, Mrs Annie Masson or Allan of Fraserburgh.
1923: James Duthie, 20 Frederick Street, Inverallochy (managing owner), (Merchant Navy List).

Note: 16 inch compound engine by James Abernethy & Co., Aberdeen, 28 H.P.
Boiler by James Abernethy, Aberdeen, 155 P.S.I.

With acknowledgement to Mr J. Reid 'Steam Drifters Recalled'.