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Name: ABEILLE NO 21
Launched: 24/01/1925
Completed: 03/1925
Builder: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Yard Number: 325
Dimensions: 232grt, 4nrt, 110.5 x 25.5 x 12.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (16.5, 27 & 44 x 30ins), 152nhp
Engines by: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1940: 144010)
History:
03/1925 Société de Remorquage et de Sauvetage "Les Abeilles", Le Havre
19/08/1940 Ministry of Shipping (Overseas Towing & Salvage Ltd, managers)
1940 Registered at Swansea
1941 Ministry of War Transport (Overseas Towing & Salvage Ltd, managers)
1944 On Admiralty service as a rescue tug
20/12/1945 Returned to Société de Remorquage et de Sauvetage "Les Abeilles", Le Havre
1960 Unknown owner
No later history known
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