JAMES ARCHIBALD LO418

Official No:  144306     Port and Year:  London, 1922  (LO418)                                                                    Aberdeen, 1928  (A318)

Description: 'Non standard' Strath Class steel side trawler; coal fired.  Ketch rigged.

Crew: 10 men (1920)

Built: by J. Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co., Aberdeen, in 1917.  (Yard no. 430)

Tonnage:   210 grt  78 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 115.6 / 22.1 / 12.0

Engine: T 3-Cyl; 57 rhp; by W. Beardman & Co., Glasgow.

Owners:   As JAMES ARCHIBALD LO418 24 Aug 1920: The Admiralty. Manager: The Secretary, Admiralty, Whitehall, London S.W.1   1921: Brand & Curzon, Docks, Milford. Managers: Edward Brand & Charles Curzon. [Same address.]   24 Jan 1928: Andrew Christie, 18 Grampian Circle, Torry, Aberdeen. Managing owner. 9 Feb 1928: As NISUS A318.   1941: R. Main, Aberdeen.

Landed at Milford: As HMT JAMES ARCHIBALD: 8 Jul, 27 Dec 1919. 24 Nov 1921 - 8 Dec 1927

Skippers: Harry Mogridge (1925)

Notes:  James Archibald, age 41, born London; O.S., HMS VICTORY at Trafalgar. 24 Apr 1917: Launched as Admy. No. 3615 as a minesweeper. 1 x 12 pdr. 1921: Registered by the Admiralty as a fishing vessel at London (LO418). Sold to mercantile. 13 Jul 1932: NISUS arrived in Aberdeen after earlier collision by MV BORNHOLM in Pentland Firth.  [The Times, Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th July 1932.] 30 Mar 1941: Lost, cause unknown, in Faroese waters.

 

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