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Name: NORA
Launched: 21/12/1879
Completed: 1880
Builder: Charles Mitchell & Co, Low Walker
Yard Number: 392
Dimensions: 339grt, 219nrt, 176.8 x 26.1 x 13.4ft
Engines: CI2cyl (25 & 45 x 27ins), 75nhp
Engines By: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a; (1888: 94507)
History:
1880 Jean Baptiste Perrett, Marseille
1888 Donald Horne Macfarlane;registered at Southampton; renamed HIAWATHA
1892 Archibald Wiliam Montgomerie, Irvine (Earl of Eglington & Winton)
1892 James Douglas Baird, Glasgow
1909 William Baird, Elie
1910 William Rice, Southampton
1910 Camper & Nicholson Ltd, Southampton
1910 Max Schultz, Southampton
1910 H Hiller & W Lang, Hamburg; renamed CLARA
1913 Noel Pemberton Billing; registered at London; renamed HIAWATHA
1915 REV James Ltd, Southampton; renamed POLYGON
1915 Vincent Stephen Emanuel Grech, London
1916 Re-registered at London; renamed LA VALETTE
1917 Henry Mulleneaux Grayson, Liverpool
1917 The Ocean Salvage Co Ltd, London; renamed LA VALETTE
1918 Restyled Salvage & Towage Co Ltd, London
1923 Restyled The Ocean Salvage Co Ltd, London
1930 Philip Charles Cecil Vail, Istanbul
1930 TurkGemi Kurtarma Anon Sirketi, Istanbul
1932 Renamed LAVALET
1935 Renamed AKBAS
1938 Deniz Bank Turk Gemi Kurtarma, Istanbul
1944 Devlet Denizyollari ve Limanlari Turk Gemi Kurtarma, Istanbul
1952 DB Gemi Kurtarma Isletmesi, Istanbul
1966 Sultan Kurt ve Ort at Istanbul; renamed YENIGUNDOGDU
1980 Haslamanlar Gemicilik, Istanbul
1982 Broken up
Comments: 1880: Built as a yacht
1916: Converted to a salvage vessel
1917 to 1919 on Admiralty service
1966: Convered to a cargo ship


Above photo copyright of Northumberland County Council Archives