ABERDEEN BUILT SHIPS


Name
 MALCOLM CROAN
Type
 TRAWLER
Date
 1960
Official Number
 301598
Description
 Yard Number: 884
Fishing Number: A444

Launched: 25/04/1960
Completed: 06/1960

Oil Engine 4SA, 5 Cyl 12½" x 14½" with SR reverse gear, Ruston & Hornsby.

'Burntisland Group Journal' Vol. 26, No. 4 (April 1961), p112-3:
"On 25th April 1960, an event of more than usual interest took place at Aberdeen when Hall, Russell and Company Limited put into the water the new motor trawlers MAUREEN CROAN and MALCOLM CROAN...
... Miss Josephine Croan named the MAUREEN CROAN and Miss Madeleine Croan named the MALCOLM CROAN...
... extensive sub-assembly methods of construction were used on the two vessels. Large hull units were pre-assembled prior to erection on the building berth..."

Later owned by B.U.T. Aberdeen.
Owned by British United Trawlers Ltd, Granton Edinburgh in 1970

Scrapped 1976 in U.K.
Shipbuilder
 Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
Owner
 Joe Croan Ltd, Aberdeen, A444
Dimensions
 length 106 3/12' x breadth 23 5/6' x depth 12'
gross tonnage: 234 ton

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