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Name: QUAYSIDER
Launched: 01/03/1955
Completed: 09/09/1955
Builder: Mutzelfeldtwerft, Cuxhaven
Yard Number: 139
Dimensions: 137grt, 97.2 x 23.4 x 10.5ft
Engines: Oil engine, 4SA, 8cyl (320 x 450mm), 102nhp
Engines By: Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz AG, Cologne
Propulsion: 1 x Screw & Kort rudder
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 186843
History:
09/1955 Lawson-Batey Tugs Ltd; registered at Newcastle
01/1959 Chartered to Tyne Tugs Ltd
07/1984 TSA Tugs Ltd, Leigh-on-Sea; registered at Jersey; renamed TOWING WIZARD
1987 Registered at Maldon
1994 Medmarine Services SA; registered at Panama; renamed TORA
2001 Michael Xiradakis, Piraeus
2004 Nafpigia Panagiotaki, Piraeus; renamed NAFPIGIA PANAGIOTAKI
2005 Broken up
Comments: 09/1955: Cost £55,316
01/1959: Cost £24,000


Above photograph courtesy of Barney Hunt

Above photograph courtesy of Peter Somerville

Above photograph copyright of Graeme Turner

Above photograph copyright of Malcolm Donnelly

Above photograph copyright of Malcolm Donnelly

Above photograph copyright of Malcolm Donnelly

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Above photograph courtesy of Alan Hughes

Above photograph courtesy of Simon Elsdon

Above photograph courtesy of Alan Hughes

Above photograph as TORA copyright of Capt John Evans