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Completed as the drifter EBENEZER by Herd & Mackenzie, Buckie, in 1939, this vessel was requisitioned by the Admiralty immediatley after completion. Operated by her owners - Gardens, from Portlussie, Buckie - she served throughout the war as a tender, ferrying crew to and from warships at the anchorage in Scapa Flow.
After the war, she entered the fishery with Gardens, who operated her out of Buckie. She was later sold to operate out of Wick and, finally, Peterhead (with the number PD45). Another owner bought her in 1973 from Peterhead where she was lying neglected, and renamed her BARCADALE. Between 1974 and 1979, she was converted into a yacht.
2023 vessel under new ownership and relocated to Southampton for restoration.
Source: Paul Brown, Historic Ships The Survivors (Amberley, 2010), updated Feb 2011
Olsen's Fisherman's Nautical Almanack 1961, Olsons, 1961
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National Historic Ships UK acknowledges the financial support of its sponsors