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Name: ABEILLE NO 20
Launched: 15/09/1924
Completed: 11/1924
Builder: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Yard Number: 324
Dimensions: 160grt, 11nrt, 100.2 x 23.0 x 10.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (12.25, 21 & 33 x 24ins), 83nhp;
(1957: Oil engine, 4SA, 6cyl (425 x 600mm), 500bhp)
Engines by: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields;
(1957: Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nurnberg (MAN), Augsburg)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1940: 167845)
History:
1924 Société de Remorquage et de Sauvetage "Les Abeilles", Le Havre
1940 Ministry of Shipping (Overseas Towing & Salvage Ltd, managers)
1940 Registered at Southampton
1941 Ministry of War Transport (Overseas Towing & Salvage Ltd, managers)
1945 Société de Remorquage et de Sauvetage "Les Abeilles", Le Havre
1957 Loucas Matsas & Sons Shipping Co Ltd, Piraeus; renamed AGHIOS NICHOLAOS
1984 Broken up
Comments: 1957: Re-engined with an engine that was manufactured in 1930
1984: Broken up at Eleusis


Above photo as ABEILLE NO 20 is courtesy of David Asprey