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Name: CASHEL
Launched: 07/11/1958
Completed: 03/04/1959
Builder: T Mitchison, Gateshead
Yard Number: 87
Dimensions: 207grt, 106.6 x 27.9 x 12.0ft; (1981: 177grt)
Engines: Oil engine, 2tew, M46M type, 6cyl (340 x 570mm), 1364bhp
Engines by: British Polar Engines Ltd, Glasgow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw (controllable pitch)
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 400157; (1973: 357379)
History:
1959 J Cooper (Belfast) Ltd, Belfast; registered at Cork
1969 R & JH Rea Ltd, London
1970 Cory Ship Towage (NI) Ltd (Cory Ship Towage, managers), London
1973 Cory Ship Towage, Avonmouth; registered at Bristol
1974 Renamed PORTGARTH
1981 Nicholas E Vernicos Shipping Co Ltd, Piraeus; renamed VERNICOS MARTHA
1989 Vita-A Maritime Co (Alpha-Vernicos Salvage & Towage, managers), Piraeus
1989 Renamed AGIOS NIKOLAOS
1995 Managers became Nicholas E Vernicos Salvage & Towage, Piraeus
09/02/2017 Broken up
Comments: 1989: Also seen as AGHIOS NIKOLAOS
09/02/2017: Broken up at Aliaga by Ege Gemi Sokum San Ve Ticiret AS


Above photo as CASHEL is courtesy of TugTalk

Above photo as CASHEL is courtesy of TugTalk

Above photo as PORTGARTH is courtesy of TugTalk

Above photo as PORTGARTH is courtesy of TugTalk

Above photo as PORTGARTH is courtesy of Ray Perry

Above photo as VERNICOS MARTHA is courtesy of Phil Goodinson

Above photo as VERNICOS MARTHA is courtesy of TugTalk

Above photo as VERNICOS MARTHA is courtesy of TugTalk

Above photo as AGIOS NIKOLAOS is copyright of Selim San at Aliaga