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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