HMT Blakedown
HMT Blakedown. (Adty No 1044) 19/02/1915
Displacement: 207 grt.
Length: 33.7 m. Beam: 6.55m. 3.5 m Draught:
Propulsion: 1 x 3 cyl. triple expansion engine, single shaft, 1 screw
Machinery by: Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. Hull
Complement: .
Men Lost: 0
Armament:
Displacement: 207 grt.
Length: 33.7 m. Beam: 6.55m. 3.5 m Draught:
Propulsion: 1 x 3 cyl. triple expansion engine, single shaft, 1 screw
Machinery by: Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. Hull
Complement: .
Men Lost: 0
Armament:
Trawler Blake built in 1900 by Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd, Hull for William Grant of Grimsby and registered GY 1162.
1915 on hire to Admiralty and renamed HMT Blakedown.
1915 on hire to Admiralty and renamed HMT Blakedown.
William Grant House Flag
The Loss
Stranded and total wreck at Cruden near Peterhead, Aberdeenshire; no lives lost.
Buchan Observer and East Aberdeenshire Advertiser - Tuesday 13 July 1915
On 11th March the Committee voted £4 to eight Whinnyfold men for saving, under moderately conditions, the crew of nine of the Blakedown of Grimsby, wrecked at the Scaurs of Cruden on 19th February.
Buchan Observer and East Aberdeenshire Advertiser - Tuesday 13 July 1915
On 11th March the Committee voted £4 to eight Whinnyfold men for saving, under moderately conditions, the crew of nine of the Blakedown of Grimsby, wrecked at the Scaurs of Cruden on 19th February.
The Wreck
HMT Blakedown has no UKHO Wreck Card.
