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Name: CLUNY HILL
Type: Fishing Vessel - Drifter
Launched: 22/04/1909
Completed: 05/1909
Builder: Smith's Dock Co Ltd
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 398
Dimensions: 86grt, 29nrt, 82.4 x 18.5 x 8.7ft
Engines: C2cyl (12 & 27 x 16ins), 38nhp
Engines by: Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 127516
History:
19/06/1909 John Ralph, Inverness
1926 William Main, Inverness; renamed CITY OF ELGIN
1938 Broken up
Comments: Also seen as CLUNY-HILL
1909: Allocated fishing registration number INS9 at Inverness
02/1915: Hired by the Admiralty as a net vessel
Armed with 1 x 6pdr gun
1920: Returned to owners


Above painting of CLUNY HILL is by J Bourne