Another fine photo from Kevin Blair showing a busy Newcastle Quayside. No name visible on the big boat but the one on the right says NANNA. I guess this is the one built in 1900 by Trondhjems MV at Trondheim and torpedoed and sunk in 1918.

EARL OF ABERDEEN.
Hall Russell and Co Ltd, Aberdeen as Yard No 249 in 1889 for the Aberdeen, Newcastle and Hull Steam Packet Co Ltd. Aberdeen.
765 Gross.
1915:- Sold to the Leith, Hull and Hamburg Steam Packet Co Ltd. renamed BRITANNIA.
Torpedoed by UC75 off Portland Bill on the 19th October 1917.

Thanks for the ID Paul.

Kevin & I have just been discussing the relative sizes of the EARL OF ABERDEEN and the NANNA and since the NANNA of 1900 was longer than the EARL OF ABERDEEN we must have the wrong NANNA. There was an earlier and smaller NANNA built in 1881 by Lindholmens Varv at Gothenburg and we think she must have been the one.

Kevin has sent me another photo of EARL OF ABERDEEN lying off Newcastle Quay.