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Shipownervessel built for Admiralty

Date1918

Object NameADMIRALTY TRAWLER

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 86 3/12' x breadth 18 7/12' x depth 9 1/6'
Gross Tonnage: 96ton

Object numberABDSHIP000863

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co.
Yard Number: 445
Subsequent Names: RALPH HALL CAINE (1920); ALLOCHY (1925).

Fate: Vessel scrapped 1956.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Admiralty drifter

Owners:
1918: Royal Navy
1920: Sold by Ministry of Agriculture & Fishing to J. Richardson of Douglas, Isle of Man, registered in Douglas, DO90.
1923: C. H. George, of Caister and re-registered in Yarmouth, YH447.
28/08/1925: Robert B. Duthie, Inverallochy, Robert B. Stephen and Thomas Buchan, Fraserburgh, FR124.
1926: Merchant Navy List gives Joseph Duthie, Fraserburgh as managing owner but register does not list him as owner in 1925.
1934: Owned by J. Duthie, Fraserburgh.
1941-45: Requisitioned for war service as a hospital drifter.
1945: Sold to Yolland Bros., Milford Haven, re-registered in Lowestoft LT109.
1949: Cairo Fishing Co., Milford Haven (Manager John Yolland).

Notes: 18 inch triple expansion engine by Beardmore, Coatbridge, 42 H.P.
Boiler by A. & W. Dalglish, Pollokshaws, Glasgow 180 P.S.I.

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