CRATHIE

Date1911

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Object numberABDSHIP000781

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.
Yard Number: 348.
Official Number: 129352.

Fate: sunk by mine, 27 August 1914.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Trawler

Owners:
1911: Caledonian Steam Trawling Co., Ltd.
1914: Requisitioned by the Admiralty and based on Tyne as a minesweeper.

Master:
1914: Master R. Gove.

"Sank after striking a mine thought to have been laid by a German submarine"
(Richard and Bridget Larn (1997), “Shipwreck Index of the British Isles” (Lloyd’s Register, London), vol. 3, section 6)

Notes: Triple expansion, 3 cylinder, 70 RHP, by W. V. V. Lidgerwood, Glasgow.