Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Tugs and Towing => Topic started by: slug on February 15, 2012, 07:48:41 pm
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i was at sharpness docks last week a tug was moored up with a red funnel iand a gold crest on the funnel notice on bridge window no name on tug to far away to take a picture i was loading on the other side of dock a pretty looking tug got home tried to find out more on the internet blank slug
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Shame you didn't know at the time you could have gone here http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/ & tracked it. Had a look around but cannot see it now.
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Hi Slug
I went mooching about - various places and emailed a guy called Chris Watts
http://www.severntales.co.uk/
http://www.friends-of-gloucester-waterways-museum.com/
This is what he had to say
I think the tug your friend refers to is THOMAS. She is registered at Southampton and has been in private hands for quite a number of years. I first saw her when we held a tug weekend at Gloucester in the late 1980s. She was then owned by a chap from Swansea, where he did berth her. However the last I heard of him was that he had fallen off the roof of his house! THOMAS has been at Sharpness for a while now, but I have never bothered to find out who owns her now and why she is there.
I've been playing that name the ship game - it's a bit of fun, but this was better :-) Now big question is - is it Thomas the Tug? I have tried to find some more images for you but failed so far
Regards Dave
(http://s10.postimage.org/jjalx3079/Tug_Thomas_at_Sharpness.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/jjalx3079/)
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if you click on that image again (after opening) it zooms up to a really big size.
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:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
I think you`ll find the Thomas was originally the C-10 based in Pompy Dockyard from 1937 to 1963 and renamed the
Destiny in 1963 , she was built by Cochrane and Sons , Selby and had a Polar Atlas 6 cyl 450 bhp direct drive air start
diesel ( which was an absolute female dog when manoeuvering ) She was sold to H.G.Pounds and then to Husbands
Shipyard at Southampton renamed Affluence -- 1988 was owened by the Star Tug and Marine, Shepperton who intended
to use her for film work -- 1991 sold refitted and renamed Thomas the surname of a Swansea Buisnessman.At some stage
she was also called the Influence when tied up in the Fowey estuary in 1989.
Length 80ft beam 25.25 ft GRT 89 tons Speed 10 knots.
I first went aboard her in 1944 at the ripe old age of 6 during the War and hers was the first Diesel engine I ever started.
rgds unicorn
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:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
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Nice information and a nice memory - jobs a good'un.
.......... any chance there's a picture of you in short trousers staring her up? {-)
Dave
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http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=13169
BB.
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Thanks for finding that image BB. The eight years since that was
taken have not been very kind to THOMAS by the look of her in
the photo I posted.
{-) {-) This is where Slug appears and says ' no not that tug' {-) {-)
Dave
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A question for Norseman, if I may hi - jack this posting for that.
Could you tell me something about the vessel in the middle of the pic,
it reminds me of an ex Shetland Islands Council inter - island ferry called either Geira or grima?
thanks in advance,
Sparky.
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http://ukshippinglog.blogspot.com/2011/03/thomas-ex-destiny-c10-at-sharpness-dry.html
BB.
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Good find BB - sort of seals it.
Hi Sparky
Sorry the photo isn't mine. It came from specificaly enquiring about Thomas. I had a quick look
for you - I'm sure there is more to be found - assuming I've got the right vessels
http://shetlopedia.com/History_of_the_Inter_Island_Ferries has links - just click on the ferry name.
The ones you mention have both old and new ferries I think so be sure to pick the right one.
Geira 1 also at http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Shetland.html#anchor1137255
Grima at http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Shetland.html#anchor84295
Dave
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thank you all that looks the right tug hull now black a very pretty tug such a shame to see her like that no name on bows when one thinks of a tug that is the image that springs to mind slug tony
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The tug with the green hull .Was the former Svitzer tug Avongarth from bristol
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Hi Ellisgarth
'Pacific Castor Kingstown' is painted over on the stern
so was it renamed?
Dave
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Hi Ellisgarth
I've had a quich mooch about re the name 'Pacific Castor' and came up with this -
IMO 8004507
Pacific Castor
Avongarth until May 2011
Iwashima Maru until Dec 1990
Last known flag was Saint Vincent & Grenadines
Photos Pacific Castor http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?query=pacific+castor&x=26&y=9
Photos Avongarth http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?query=avongarth&x=17&y=9
Photo Iwashima Maru http://www.photoship.co.uk/JAlbum%20Ships/Old%20Ships%20I/slides/Iwashima%20Maru-01.html
What do you think it is called now? Might try and find out more.
Dave
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http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?query=pacific+castor&x=26&y=9
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?query=avongarth&x=17&y=9
http://www.photoship.co.uk/JAlbum%20Ships/Old%20Ships%20I/slides/Iwashima%20Maru-01.html
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thank you for all the info the old avongarth another nice looking tug built 1960 they just look the part norseman i spent an hour looking for the tug at sharpness no luck you have now solved the problem i hope she is kept so sad when old ships fade away the kathleen may sailing ship is another vessel i hope is saved she is up for sale she is the last of her type slug
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http://www.kathleenandmay.co.uk/
The Kathleen & May - not heard of her so just looked her up Slug, interesting vessel. Thanks
Dave
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Thanks Norseman, looks like it could be the Geira - sold to Orkney owners, then later sold to Ramsgate for survey work as "Task One."
These old ferries are quite easily converted into workboats.
Once again, thanks Norseman.
Sparky.