At Corporation Quay.

PRESTWICK 06.07.78

P K Harris & Sons Ltd, Appledore as Yard Number 56 in March 1955 for France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear Co. Ltd.

12 Cy General Motors Engine of 1080 BHP manufactured in 1944. Speed 11 knots. Bollard Pull 14.

05.1977; Transferred for £40,000 to Lawson Batey Tugs Ltd.
04.1978; Chartered to Wear Tugs Ltd.
04.1986; Chartered to Tyne & Wear Tugs Ltd.
12.1987; Sold for £20,000 to Medway Port Services Ltd, Strood, and Corveda Marine Ltd, Stanmore.
1992; Still in service. Owner Medway Port Services.

1993: PRESTWICK was sold to General Port Services without change of name
2001: Sold to NE Murray & Sons at Queenborough; renamed NORE SWALE
2009: Sold to Unknown Nigerian owners; renamed BELYNDA
However she never made it to Nigeria. She was abandoned at Sines in Portugal and eventually broken up there in 2011.

Here she is shown as NORE SWALE in a photo by Roger Hammond in 2004

and here she meets her end.

Photo copyright as detailed on the photograph.

PRESTWICK at Sunderland 18.02.83

Prestwick operating at Sunderland on 16 September 1979.

Prestwick in Hudson Dock on 7 June 1981.