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) |
Engines By: | George Clark (1938) Ltd, Sunderland |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 169180 |
History: | |
1944 | Ministry of War Transport (Overseas Towage & Salvage Ltd, managers), Newcastle |
1946 | Ministry of Transport |
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 courtesy of Alan Hughes
Above photo as EMPIRE AID courtesy of Kevin Blair
Above photo as HUDA courtesy of Buster Browne