ABERDEEN BUILT SHIPS


Name
 KIRKELLA
Construction
 STEEL
Type
 FREEZER STERN TRAWLER
Date
 1965
Official Number
 305792
Description
 Yard Number: 924
Official Number: 305792

Date of Launch: 3 May 1965

Subsuquent Names: SEABOARD IMPACABLE (1984-1995); HORNBECK IMPLACABLE (1995-98); TIDEWATER IMPLACABLE (1998); SEAWAY IMPLACABLE (1998); EIDE IMPLACABLE (1999)

Diesel-electric stern trawler
Welded, riveted, 2 decks

Information from the Burntisland Shipbuilding Group Journal 28 (1) p10-11:
Launched 3 May 1965 - sponsor Mrs G. E. Marr, wife of chairman of owning company.
One of a series of stern trawlers built for J. Marr & Son Ltd - others are JUNELLA and NORTHELLA. Vessel fishes over stern.
The refrigerated fish hold has capacity of over 500 tons, held at a temperature of -20 degrees fahrenheit.
Photos:
(1) Kirkella
(2) Sponsor
(3) Factory deck showing vertical plate freezers
(4) Wheelhouse
(5) Three diagrams showing layout

Classed LR until 24/02/1984

KIRKELLA was one of many freezer trawlers built in Hall Russell's for J. Marr (Hull). JUNELLA was the first built in 1962.

Powered by 3 oil 4SA each 8cy 10x12, 2715BHP driven by 3 generators each 560KW 303V D.C. creating electic current to drive the electric motor which is connected to the propeller shaft. dB 180lb. The motor was supplied by English Electric Co. Vulcan Works, Newton-Le-Willows.

KIRKELLA went to Greenland or Newfoundland to catch cod. Once the fish have been caught the net is hauled up the ramp at the stern, once the net is at the top of the ramp a hydraulic door on the deck is opened up and the release rope is pulled and the fish cascade down the chute to the factory floor where washed and put into filleting machines, then into block freezers . Once frozen they go down to the large freezer fish hold. These trips could last for 2 months.

KIRKELLA was sold in 1984 to Starboard Offshore Ltd (Inverness) and converted from fishing to D-E Standby Safety Vessel for offshore installations fire fighting.

Sold in 1995 to Tide Water Marine Services (Inverness). Now called HORNBECK IMPLACABLE.

In 1998 name was changed to TIDEWATER IMPLACABLE. Later in 1998 name changed to SEAWAY IMPLACABLE, still for Tide Water Marine (Inverness).

In 1999 sold to Eide Marine Services, Bergen, Norway and renamed EIDE IMPLACABLE.

Vessel traced up to 2006.
Shipbuilder
 Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
Shipowner
 J Marr & Son Ltd
Dimensions
 length (BP) 214' 6" x breadth 40' 6" x depth 26' 6"
Gross Tonnage: 1714 ton

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