TULAGI

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TULAGI

Postby northeast » Fri Aug 30, 2013 11:35 am

1954, y.n. 886
For Royal Engineers, Marchwood, later Haulbowline Industries. Idle at Cork 2004.
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Re: TULAGI

Postby magoonigal » Fri Aug 30, 2013 11:33 pm

Tulagi, less commonly known as Tulaghi, is a small island (5.5 km by 1 km) in the Solomon Islands, just off the south coast of Florida Island. The town of the same name on the island (pop. 1,750) was the capital of the Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1896 to 1942, and is today the capital of the Central Province.

The island was originally chosen by the British as a comparatively isolated and healthier alternative to the disease-ridden larger islands of the Solomons.
Paul Hood. + WSS Tyneside Branch Hon Sec.
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Re: TULAGI

Postby Whickham » Sat Aug 31, 2013 9:08 am

TULAGI on the slip in 2009. Photo courtesy of Torstein Saksvik

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Re: TULAGI

Postby northeast » Sat Aug 31, 2013 11:24 am

Presumably still at Cork?
Someone did once explain the PT48 number in my photo, but I forget what it was!
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Re: TULAGI

Postby northeast » Sat Aug 31, 2013 4:54 pm

Poor old thing, what a mess (and that goes for the tug as well) ;)
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Re: TULAGI

Postby tidesman » Wed May 25, 2016 10:24 am

TULAGI
O.N.302133. 37g. 15n. 56.0 x 15.0 x 7.0 feet approx.
As built: 4-cyl. 2 SCSA (12½" x 18½") GMB-4 type by H. Widdop and Co. Ltd., Keighley, double reduction geared to a single fixed pitch propeller. 200bhp.
19xx: Refitted with an unspecified type Caterpillar engine. 360bhp.
19.8.1954: Launched by Richard Dunston Ltd, Thorne (Yard No. T886) for the Australian, Corp of Army Engineers.
11.1954: Completed for the UK Government – Ministry of Defence, Army and allocated to Marchwood, Southampton.
1974: Sold to Port Talbot Diving and Marine Services Ltd (A.J.Doig), Port Talbot. Registered for fishing with the number PT48.
19xx: Sold to Haulbowline Industries Ltd, Cork (Capt. Con Lynch) subsequently re-engined and part rebuilt.
2008: Lying in the River Bandon, Cork, for sale.
2009: Reported as sold to North Wales based divers, but no reports since that time.
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