Tug PLANKTON
STILL ALIVE AND IN NORMAL SERVICE

Built in 1943 by Shipbuilding Morris N.Y. Corporation USA (even today this engraving can be clearly seen written on the tug's bronze bell).



Brief history:
Built 1943 as DPC 43 by Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp, Morris Heights NY (Yd 3189) for Defense Plant Corporation [Subcontracted from Decatur Iron & Steel Inc, Decatur (Yd 43) ?]
1944 transferred to US Army Transportation Corps as ST 771 and worked on Normandy beaches
1948 renamed LUCIEN SAMURE (ST 771)
1951 Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen as STUR
1954 Foundered off Bremerhaven after collision with sunken U-boat, raised and repaired by Schiffbau Unterweser.
1968 Brodospas, Split as ALTAIR
1992 Poduzece 'Overland Trade', Hvar as fishing vessel PLANKTON
1999 Milivoj Blaslov, Boris Bakija & Rajko Gulan, Zadar
2005 Sun Adria d.o.o, Rijeka and reverted to tug
(source: davidships)


Today the tug PLANKTON is owned by the civil engineering company Sun Adria d.o.o, Rijeka, Croatia;
http://www.sun-adria.hr/

On this picture the tug PLANKTON is seen at Bakar during one of its regular service tasks;
23 January 2014