Registration number 1603
Status Archived
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Details

Function Fishing Vessel
Subfunction Trawler
Location NONE
Vessel type MFV
Archive reason Disposed
Current use Private use
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Thompson, George & Son, Buckie
Built in 1952
Hull material Wood
Rig Gaff Ketch
Propulsion Motor
Number of engines 1
Primary engine type Diesel
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
18.59 feet (5.67m)
Depth
9.25 feet (2.82m)
Length: Overall
64.95 feet (19.81m)

History

BRITANNIA is a motor fishing vessel, built by George Thomson & Son at Buckie in 1952. She is a typical design from that era and was so common that no plans were drawn for her construction. She was commissioned for work as a seine netter and was later converted to a trawler. BRITANNIA fished around the East and West Coast of Scotland and had an unremarkable service life. Her hull is carvel built with larch planking and oak frames. She has a cruiser stern and a plumb straight stem. The current engine is an inboard four-stroke Gardner 6L3B diesel with six cylinders and one hundred and seventy-two brake horsepower, made in 1967. BRITANNIA is currently in full working order, although all her fishing gear has been removed and a mizen mast and sail have been fitted. 

Update: February 2021: Vessel disposed November 2020 after being sunk at her moorings in August 2020.

Key dates

  • 1952

    Built by G Thompson of Buckie

  • November 2020

    Vessel broken up after being sunk at her moorings a few months earlier. 

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