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Mess Deck: General Section => Tugs and Towing => Topic started by: stickystuff on May 04, 2015, 06:06:40 pm

Title: Sun XXI tug
Post by: stickystuff on May 04, 2015, 06:06:40 pm

I have acquired the hull of a Sun XXI tug (35 inch )  but lack any documentation as to the build . The prop ,rudder and bow thruster are all installed and appear OK. I am seeking any help on the superstructure details, else it will be my extract of web pictures. This will no doubt mean it will end up looking like a tank or the QE2.

All information gratefully received.

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Sun XXI tug
Post by: tugmad on May 04, 2015, 06:43:19 pm

PM sent.   Geo

Title: Re: Sun XXI tug
Post by: tugmad on May 05, 2015, 04:18:36 pm

Drawings on the way Simon,      :-)) :-))     Geo

Title: Re: Sun XXI tug
Post by: Martin (Admin) on May 05, 2015, 04:46:51 pm

What great photo.   :-))

Title: Re: Sun XXI tug
Post by: dodes on May 06, 2015, 08:18:51 pm

What a great tug.

Title: Re: Sun XXI tug
Post by: tugmad on May 07, 2015, 04:57:24 pm

Here is another nice one   :-)) :-))

Title: Re: Sun XXI tug
Post by: tugnut on May 07, 2015, 06:32:46 pm

Blimy bro she was spanking new there

Title: Re: Sun XXI tug
Post by: tugmad on May 07, 2015, 07:03:47 pm

Hi bro yes she was running trials in the channel outside Dartmouth,she was all on in the picture,  geo

Title: Re: Sun XXI tug
Post by: NFMike on May 07, 2015, 07:06:37 pm

That's a very masculine funnel.
More show than go  :-)

Title: Re: Sun XXI tug
Post by: tugmad on May 07, 2015, 07:09:32 pm

Oooh Yes they had bags of funnel power,but very smart tugs. %%

Title: Re: Sun XXI tug
Post by: tugmad on May 07, 2015, 08:11:16 pm

This one the Burma and her sister The Watercock were built After the sun tugs and these really had masculine  funnels AND they were built with OPEN wheelboxes the white fibre glass tops were built locally in Gravesend and retro fitted.   {:-{ {:-{

Title: Re: Sun XXI tug
Post by: dodes on May 08, 2015, 08:22:48 pm

This picture of SUN21 was taken in Gibraltar near the end of her service with Alexander's. Always fond of her, my Dad was chief engineer on her for some time, took me for a shift on her when I was a young teenager in the early 1960's. She was then owned by Alexanders of Gravesend, then a very modern looking forward company.

Title: Re: Sun XXI tug
Post by: tugmad on May 09, 2015, 07:20:29 am

Nice picture Dodes,that is the stern of the XXIII also in the picture,They don't look quite as smart as they did on the Thames though   {:-{ A wired thing was that the XXIII was the only one of the 4 that had a white painted wheelhouse when she was launched at Phillips,then she was painted with the brown one when she came home,but she ended her life with a white wheel box,  weird eh.

Title: Re: Sun XXI tug
Post by: jarvo on May 09, 2015, 07:37:10 pm

Hi Tugmad


In your picture of Sun XXII there is a box like thing on a pedistal just in from the Funnel. What is it??? (radar scanner)????


Mark

Title: Re: Sun XXI tug
Post by: tugmad on May 09, 2015, 11:24:36 pm

Yes it is the early Decca radar scanner.