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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| DEXTEROUS |
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GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1957 |
21/08/1956 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Tug Towing
| Steel Diesel-electric |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Yarrow & Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
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2089 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 473 grt / / 700 disp |
157.0 ft |
30.0 ft |
15.0 ft |
10.0 ft |
| Engine builder |
Davey, Paxman & Co. Ltd., Colchester |
| Engine detail |
| Diesel-electric paddle tug. 4x12Cyl Paxman 12YHAXZ diesels of 1800 bhp total driving DC generators. 2xBritish Thompson Houston electric motors of 1640 bhp total driving independent paddle wheels. 13knots |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Port Auxiliary Service |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
| Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service. |
| Vessel history |
| Director Class paddle tug - Pennant A93. Primarily used to assist aircraft carriers in Gibraltar Naval Dockyard. |
| Remarks |
Beam 60 ft over paddle boxes.
Bollard pull 16tons.
Range 5900 miles @ 13knots.
Complement 22. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1981 |
Broken Up |
| Disposal Detail |
| 11/1981 towed from Gibraltar for scrapping at Seville |
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