DAWN
Owner
Admiralty
Date1918
Object NameADMIRALTY TRAWLER
MediumSTEEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 86 3/12' x breadth 18 7/12' x depth 9 1/6'
gross tonnage: 96 ton
gross tonnage: 96 ton
Object numberABDSHIP000861
Keywords
Yard Number: 444
Subsequent Names: EXPANSE; JANE WRIGHT, PL97 (1923), CAMRO
Fate: Dismantled 1933, hull subsequently scuttled 1939
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Admiralty drifter
Owners:
1918: Royal Navy
13.11.1919:Transferred to Fishery Board for Scotland for commercial sale.
Renamed EXPANSE. Allotted Official No. 146041.
1920: Transferred to Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, London.
Registered at Lowestoft, LT 732.
by 09.1921:Owners Dixon & Shippen, Whitehaven. Renamed JANE WRIGHT.
Registered at Peel, PL 97.
16.07.1926:Owners Victorian Fisheries Co. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
09.1927: Owners Cam & Sons Pty. Ltd., Sydney.
General History:
16.05.1925: Towed the ketch MARIE CELINE with mainmast broken, into Whitehaven.
18.07.1926: Sailed from Fleetwood for Melbourne with a British crew.
Docked at Malta and Padang to repair leaking rivets.
Delayed at Aden for 5 weeks by the monsoon season.
05.12.1926: Arrived at Williamstown, Melbourne after a 139-day voyage, during which it had been towed into Carnarvon W.A. by the M.V. Kangaroo (at £10 per mile for 150 miles), after running out of coal and burning the accommodation’s wooden fittings.
08.1928: Renamed CAMRO
1933: Dismantled at Sydney
22.03.1939: Hull scuttled off Sydney.
Note: Inverted surface condensing Triple expansion steam engine, 270 i.h.p, 42 RHP, built by W. Beardmore & Co. Glasgow.
