Name: | DPC 99 |
Launched: | |
Completed: | 11/1943 |
Builder: | American Shipbuilding Co, Buffalo, New York |
Yard Number: | 922 |
Dimensions: | 176grt, 82.5 x 24.2 x 10.0ft |
Engines: | Oil engine, 2SA, 8cyl (8.5 x 10ins), 700bhp |
Engines By: | General Motors Corporation, Detroit |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 169227 |
History: | |
11/1943 | Defence Plant Corporation, USA |
1943 | Transferred to the United States Army; renamed ST 767 |
04/1951 | France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear Co Ltd; renamed CORNHILL |
05/1977 | Lawson-Batey Tugs Ltd, cost £18,000 |
041978 | Chartered to Wear Tugs Ltd |
07/1980 | WGS Crouch & Sons Ltd, Greenhithe; renamed HANNAH SPEARING |
11/1985 | Marine & General Engineering, Sunbury-on-Thames |
02/1988 | John Gaskill, Skipton |
1996 | Broken up |
Comments: | 1977: Cost £18,000 |
1980: Cost £25,000 | |
1996: Destroyed by fire at Fleetwood. Broken up where lay. |
Above: The naming of hull no 922 at American Shipbuilding Co
Above photo as CORNHILL courtesy of Stephen Swinhoe
Above photo as CORNHILL courtesy of Stephen Swinhoe
Above photo as CORNHILL courtesy of Stephen Swinhoe
Above photo as CORNHILL courtesy of Stephen Swinhoe
Above photo as CORNHILL copyright of Michael Green
Above photo as CORNHILL copyright of Dennis Maccoy
Above photo as CORNHILL copyright of Stephen Swinhoe
Above photo as HANNAH SPEARING courtesy of TugTalk
Above photo as HANNAH SPEARING courtesy of TugTalk
Above photo as HANNAH SPEARING courtesy of TugTalk
Above photo as HANNAH SPEARING courtesy of TugTalk
Above photo as HANNAH SPEARING copyright of Michael Green
Above photo as HANNAH SPEARING copyright of Michael Green