Other Smith's Docks tugs (Tees)
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 7:59 pmFor completeness:
SMITH’S DOCKS (known as SMITH’S DOCKS NO 2, but never officially registered as such) (1910-1938): ON 128810 22grt 0nrt 50.0 x 12.5 x 6.3ft; blt 1910 Smith’s Docks Co, South Bank (Yd 429); eng C2cy d-a vert 9”19” x 12” 20nhp 125ihp 9kn Shields Engineering & DD Co, N Shields; 1910 (28 Feb) keel laid; 1910 (23 May) launched 1910 (11 Jul) completed for Smith’s Docks Co (reg Middlesbrough); 1914 (23 Sep)-1920 (15 Jan) on Admiralty service at Invergordon/Cromarty; 1938 scrapped.
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SMITH’S DOCKS NO 5 (1949-19…): ON 169153 14grt 5nrt 36 x 10ft wood hull; blt 1943 at Potsdam-Sacrow; eng diesel; 1943 built for German Navy as ….; 1949 acquired by Smith’s Dock Co (reg Middlesbrough); (further details sought). She was still listed as owned by SDL in 1976 (the last Mercantile Navy List to be published).
Ron
SMITH’S DOCKS (known as SMITH’S DOCKS NO 2, but never officially registered as such) (1910-1938): ON 128810 22grt 0nrt 50.0 x 12.5 x 6.3ft; blt 1910 Smith’s Docks Co, South Bank (Yd 429); eng C2cy d-a vert 9”19” x 12” 20nhp 125ihp 9kn Shields Engineering & DD Co, N Shields; 1910 (28 Feb) keel laid; 1910 (23 May) launched 1910 (11 Jul) completed for Smith’s Docks Co (reg Middlesbrough); 1914 (23 Sep)-1920 (15 Jan) on Admiralty service at Invergordon/Cromarty; 1938 scrapped.
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SMITH’S DOCKS NO 5 (1949-19…): ON 169153 14grt 5nrt 36 x 10ft wood hull; blt 1943 at Potsdam-Sacrow; eng diesel; 1943 built for German Navy as ….; 1949 acquired by Smith’s Dock Co (reg Middlesbrough); (further details sought). She was still listed as owned by SDL in 1976 (the last Mercantile Navy List to be published).
Ron