Name: | WYOLA |
Launched: | 01/05/1912 |
Completed: | 07/1912 |
Builder: | JT Eltringham & Co Ltd, South Shields |
Yard Number: | 288 |
Dimensions: | 306grt, 7nrt, 125.0 x 24.7 x 13.1ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (18, 30 & 48 x 33ins), 170nhp, 1100ihp |
Engines by: | Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 131636 |
History: | |
1912 | The Swan River Shipping Co Ltd, Fremantle, Australia |
14/10/1912 | Registered at Fremantle |
10/01/1970 | Broken up |
Comments: | 23/07/1912: Left South Shields for Dartmouth |
Sailed to Australia via Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Aden, Colombo, Singapore, | |
Port Hedland and Geraldton | |
05/10/1912: Arrived at Fremantle | |
On delivery voyage towed the storm damaged barque CONCORDIA from | |
Port Hedland to Fremantle | |
28/03/1918: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a rescue tug, stationed at Malta | |
1920: Returned to owners | |
10/01/1970: Last towage job at Fremantle | |
10/01/1970: Sold for $6500 to Goldfields Metal Traders, for demolition at Fremantle | |
Thanks to Buster J Browne for the above details |
Above photo, dated 05/1927, is copyright of Fremantle Ports - State Library of Western Australia
Above photo is courtesy of Richard Cox
Above: WYOLA attending HMS BULWARK at Fremantle in late 1961. Photo copyright of Buster J Browne
Above photo is copyright of the Saxon Fogarty Collection
Above photo is copyright of Chris Howell
Above photo is courtesy of Buster J Browne