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Name: CULTRA
Launched: 08/03/1962
Completed: 02/08/1962
Builder: T Mitchison Ltd, Gateshead
Yard Number: 526
Dimensions: 202grt, 0nrt, 95.9 x 26.5 x 13.4ft
Engines: Oil engine, 2SCSA, Polar type MN16, 6cyl (340 x 570mm), 1260bhp
Engines by: Nydqvist & Holm Ab, Trollhattan
Propulsion: 1 x Screw (controllable pitch)
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 300059
History:
21/08/1962 J Cooper (Belfast) Ltd, Belfast; registered at Belfast
1969 R & JH Rea Ltd, London
1970 Cory Ship Towage (NI) Ltd (Cory Ship Towage Ltd, managers)
1983 Frank Pearce (Tugs) Ltd, Poole; registered at Poole; renamed PULLWELL
1985 Boukos Tugs Shipping Co, Greece; renamed POLIKOS
1988 Portolos Hellenic Tugboats SA & Hellenic Tugboats Ltd, Piraeus
1993 Managers became Portolos Salvage & Towage, Greece
Broken up
Comments: 01/2015: Reported as "Broken up some time ago"


Above photo as CULTRA is courtesy of TugTalk

Above photo as CULTRA is courtesy of TugTalk

Above photo as CULTRA is copyright of Danny Lynch

Above photo as CULTRA is courtesy of TugTalk

Above photo as CULTRA is copyright of Peter J Fitzpatrick

Above photo as PULLWELL is courtesy of TugTalk

Above photo as PULLWELL is copyright of Danny Lynch

Above photo as POLIKOS is courtesy of TugTalk

Above photo as POLIKOS is copyright of Emmanouil Papadakis