ABERDEEN BUILT SHIPS


Name
 AUCHMACOY
Construction
 STEEL
Type
 COASTER
Date
 1939
Official Number
 165252
Description
 Yard Number: 750

Steel motor coaster with cruiser stern, cargo battens not fitted.

Stranded at the mouth of the Ythan 9 February 1940.
By 1942-43 Register, listed as owned by Elder Dempster Lines Ltd. of Liverpool, but still registered in Aberdeen.

Carried cargoes of coal between ports in Nigeria. Dismantled and sunk off Lagos, last quarter of 1950*

*May still have been afloat in 1964:
Elder Dempster & Company / African Steam Ship Company (Fleet):
AUCHMACOY 1939 Delta ports feeder service, 1964 sold to Odunsi & Co, Lagos. 255
(Source: http://oceania.pbworks.com/w/page/8473444/UK_Elder-Dempster)
Shipbuilder
 Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
Owner
 Mitchell & Rae Ltd.
Dimensions
 length 114' 6" x breadth 23' 1" x depth 8' 4"
gross tonnage 255 tons
Gross Tonnage: 255ton

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