by E28 » Sat Jan 07, 2017 8:16 pm
Would 1989 be rather late to be scrapped by Drapers.
As you all know the Company Albert Draper & Sons was established in 1922 and is still very much active, according to their website, in Raven St, Hull.
Their own site states between 1972 - 1981 they broke 'about' 30 trawlers. This occured at the Patent Slipway or Victoria Dock Slipway Hull, which is now a Heritage area.
I am also interested in their disposal of the A class sub Alcide, S65, which arrived June 1974 from Portsmouth having paid off some years before. She was a late A class scrapping, built by Vickers Barrow yno 907 launched 12 April 1945.
Congratulations to Kingston-upon-Hull for becoming the UK City of Culture for 2017.
Thats all folks. Sean.