ABERDEEN BUILT SHIPS


Name
 ADMIRAL DRAKE
Type
 MOTOR FISHING TRAWLER
Date
 1960
Official Number
 302236
Description
 Yard Number: 891

Owner: Parbel Smith (Manager Don Fishing Co. Aberdeen)

Launched by Margaret Bellamy 1960

Oil engine 4SA, 6cy 15"x18" Mirrless Bickerton & Day, Stockport

Subsequent Names: GRAMPIAN PRINCE; AYR DRAGON; WHITE PEARL

ADMIRAL DRAKE is a sister ship to the ADMIRAL JELLICOE (1961).

Owned in 1965 by Mannofield F Co. Ltd, Aberdeen.

ADMIRAL DRAKE was purchased by George Craig & Sons Ltd (North Star Shipping) of Aberdeen in 1966 until 1978 as a fishing vessel. In 1978 they converted to standby safety vessel as GRAMPIAN PRINCE for the oil industry still retaining her fishing license and number.

Owned in 1978 by H K F Trawlers Ltd, Aberdeen and a new roll as a standby safety vessel for offshore installations.

During the oil recession in 1986 the vessel was sold to Narrow Style Ltd, C. Maine (Shipping) Aberdeen and converted back into a fishing vessel with fishing number A.40, fishing out of Spain. Vessel still held a British fishing license and number as GRAMPIAN PRINCE until 1992 when it was sold to Bracon Sea Ltd, Ayr and was renamed AYR DRAGON until 1995.

Surveys overdue and class suspended 17/09/1997.

Vessel was sold to Bellgrade Ltd of Ayr, Scotland and renamed WHITE PEARL and is registered in the 2003 and 2006 Lloyd's Register as WHITE PERAL with a AR99 number.


Shipbuilder
 Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
Owner
 Parbel-Smith Ltd
Dimensions
 length 114 5/12' x breadth 26 1/12' x depth 13'
Gross Tonnage: 306 ton

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