AVONDEE A826

Taken by a Coastal Command patrol aircraft in 1943

Courtesy of Davie Tait

Official No: 143868    Port and Year:  Aberdeen, 1922

Description: Strath class steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning.  Ketch rigged

Crew:  11

Built: J. Fullerton & Co., Paisley.  (Yard no. 251)

Tonnage: 202 grt  77 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 115.4 / 22.2 / 12.1

Engine: T3-Cyl. 74 rhp, 9.5 knots; by W. Allen, Sons & Co., Bedford

Owners:   As THOMAS EVISON 12 Apr 1918: Admiralty.   Renamed  JEANNIE M. ROBERTSON A826 1922: Harrow Robertson Steam Fishing Co., Aberdeen Manager: J. A. Harrow.   Renamed AVONDEE 1928: North Star Steam Fishing Co., Regent Rd., Aberdeen Manager: J. A. Harrow   1944: Robert P. Lewis (Haven Trawlers), Docks, Milford   1946: John W. Johnstone, 186, Market St., Aberdeen. Managing Owner.

Landed at Milford: 8 May 1943 - 5 Apr 1946

Notes: 12 Apr 1918: Delivered as THOMAS EVISON to Admiralty (No. 3743). Listening hydrophones; 1 x 12 pdr. 1922: Sold to mercantile. Mar 1944: Requisitioned by Admiralty as AVONDEE, and converted to an Esso. (P.No. 4.432) Oct 1944: Returned to owners.

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