Re: CORNHILL
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Fri Mar 15, 2013 2:50 pm
by TEESMAN
Re: CORNHILL
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Sat Mar 16, 2013 12:35 am
by magoonigal
Built by American Shipbuilding Co. Buffalo NY as yard Number 922 as DPC 99 for Defence Plant Corporation, USA in November 1943.
General Motors Engine of 700 BHP giving a speed of 14 knots.
1943; Transferred to United States Army and renamed ST 767.
04.1951; Purchased by France Fenwick Tyne & Wear, Co Ltd and renamed CORNHILL.
05.1977; Transferred for £18,000 to Lawson Batey Tugs Ltd and Chartered to Wear Tugs Ltd. April 1978.
07.1980; Sold for £25,000 to W G S Crouch & Sons Ltd., Greenhithe and renamed HANNAH SPEARING.
Re: CORNHILL
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Sat Mar 16, 2013 8:54 am
by Whickham
See:
http://www.tynetugs.co.uk/dpc991943.htmlFor some more photos and details of her final demise
Re: CORNHILL
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Sat Mar 16, 2013 9:06 am
by magoonigal
Smashing selection of Photographs.
I should have just posted your links...........
Re: CORNHILL
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Sat Mar 16, 2013 11:47 am
by TEESMAN
Re: CORNHILL
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Sat Jul 25, 2015 7:44 pm
by Dennis Maccoy
In Hudson Dock on 16 September 1979.
Re: CORNHILL
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Fri Sep 04, 2015 8:29 pm
by Dennis Maccoy
At the harbour entrance on 23 March 1980.
Re: CORNHILL
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Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:17 am
by Stephen Swinhoe
She was a great little boat.