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Name: ABEILLE NO 5
Launched: 11/07/1910
Completed: 08/1910
Builder: JP Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields
Yard Number: 266
Dimensions: 211grt, 18nrt, 108.5 x 24.1 x 10.8ft
Engines: 2 x C2cyl (16 & 34 x 22ins), 109nhp
Engines By: JP Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields
Propulsion: 2 x Screws
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1940: 165641)
History:
1910 Société de Remorquage et de Sauvetage "Les Abeilles", Le Havre, France
1940 Ministry of War Transport (managed by Overseas Towage & Salvage Co Ltd)
1940 Registered at Milford
1946 Société de Remorquage et de Sauvetage "Les Abeilles", Le Havre, France
1958 Renamed ABEILLE NO 30
1958 Broken up
Comments: 03/07/1940 to 1945 Seized by the UK, registered number 165641


Photo as ABEILLE NO 5 courtesy of David Asprey