Mary White (trawler)
British fishing trawler and boom defence vessel
Mary White was a steam trawler that was built in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1935. She was launched as White Pioneer, but renamed Mary White in 1937. She was a naval trawler from 1940 to 1946. She was renamed Luffness in 1949.
She was the first steamship to be purpose-built with a propulsion system made by White's Marine Engineering Company of Newcastle. William Albert White combined a compound steam engine and an exhaust steam turbine, with reduction gearing for both engines onto the same propeller shaft. In 1948 her compound engine, turbine, and reduction gearing were all removed, and replaced with a triple expansion engine.
As White Pioneer, the trawler operated from Newcastle upon Tyne. As Mary White, she operated from Milford Haven and Grimsby. As Luffness, she operated from Granton.
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