Alongside at Lerwick |
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Finlay Paton GW 8
Built | 1930 Hall Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen as "Barbara Robb" (Steel) |
Yard No | 713 |
Owner at New | George Robb, Aberdeen (owner/manager ) |
ID no | 162271 |
Launch Date | 14.05.1930 |
Completed | 06.1930 |
Gross Tons | 217 |
Nett Tons | 74 |
Engine | 65 hp T.3-cyl by Hall Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen |
Length | 117.6ft |
Breadth | 22.1ft |
Depth | 12.2ft |
Owners | |
10.06.1930 | Registered at Aberdeen A.124 |
1931 | Homeward bound ran ashore at Huna, Caithness in dense fog. She was refloated at high tide by Stroma fishermen. |
1933 | Owned by George Robb & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen (George Robb manager). |
07.05.1938 | In collision with and sank S.T. "Dandini" A.18 (212g/1917) in a gale and heavy snow storm 50 miles of Shetland, "Dandini" was struck on the quarter and sank in 40 minutes , all crew rescued and taken to Lerwick. |
09.1939 | Requisitioned as Boom Defence Vessel (P.No.Z.155) based at Aultbea, Loch Ewe. |
12.1944 | Returned to Owners. |
20.01.1941 | Owned by North Star Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (John Alexander Harrow manger ). |
25.06.1946 | Renamed "AVONVIEW". |
21.01.1952 | Owned by Ardrossan Trawling Co Ltd, Glasgow (Walter K. Paton Ltd,managers). |
21.01.1952 | Aberdeen registry closed. |
1952 | Renamed "FINLAY PATON". |
1952 | Registered at Glasgow GW 8. |
1961 | Sold as scrap to BISCO (British Iron & Steel Co) for £3156. |
20.12.1961 | Arrived at Charlestown, Fife |
09.01.1962 | Scrapped by Shipbreaking Industries Ltd at Charlestown, Fife |
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