At Swan Hunter's in 2003 and 2004, the yard's launch tug, an ex Dutch veteran


1924, 20gt
Marckman & Faasen, Rotterdam (??) as STERN, steam tug
1933 WIDIJA
1949 EN AVANT XVIII
1956 JOCO
1969 STERN
1972 TERN

Dated 19.02.1985.

I wonder what was the occasion?

Obviously Naval and I can see Alex Marsh (with the beard) in the centre of the group. I would guess Alex Marsh was one of the joint MDs at this date.

Captained by John McCormick alias Flapper went on to work for Devlin and to become Captain of the grab dredger Hedwin. Micky

A couple more views of TERN on the move.

This caused me to wonder if she was still around on the Tyne, so I looked at Dave's tug site:
http://www.tynetugs.co.uk/stern1924.html
and found he has recorded: 2007: Was taken to India with many other SHS (Swan Hunter) assets such as the floating dock & cranes. Which answers my question!

Ron

Dave: a couple of photos seem to have gone missing from your page: http://www.tynetugs.co.uk/stern1924.html

Yes, thanks Ron. The photos are actually there if you keep refreshing the page. I've had a display problem with the site for a while and I have narrowed the problem down to the menu system which came with the website builder package that I started out with years ago. I am currently rebuilding the site to get away from the problem. Hopefully will be finished in a couple of months.