Name: | EMPIRE AID |
Launched: | 27/11/1943 |
Completed: | 17/04/1944 |
Builder: | Clelands (Successors) Ltd, Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 69 |
Dimensions: | 485grt, 40nrt, 135.0 x 30.0 x 16.0ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (16.5, 27 & 46 x 30ins), 220nhp |
Engines by: | George Clark (1938) Ltd, Sunderland |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 169180 |
History: | |
14/04/1944 | Ministry of War Transport (Overseas Towage & Salvage Ltd, managers), London |
14/04/1944 | Registered at Newcastle |
1946 | Ministry of Transport, London |
1952 | Overseas Towage & Salvage Co Ltd; renamed MARINIA |
1954 | Kuwait Oil Co Ltd, London; renamed HUDA |
1965 | Hussain Hassan Deeb, Kuwait |
1967 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the Englishman/Larch Class of Empire tugs |
1967: Broken up at Basrah, Iraq |
Above photo as EMPIRE AID, dated 10/10/1948, is courtesy of Jos Haver
Above photo as EMPIRE AID with Turkish ferry YALOVA to Istanbul, dated 10/10/1948, is courtesy of Jos Haver
Above photo as EMPIRE AID is courtesy of Alan Hughes
Above photo as EMPIRE AID is courtesy of Kevin Blair
Above photo as HUDA is courtesy of Buster Browne