Thanks Krispen

143grt, 30.35/28.94 x 6.61 x 3.50 (dr 2.99)m
built 1921 AG Weser, Bremen (Yd 386)
T3cyl coal-fired 47nhp 450ihp 10kn 1scr, AG Weser

ordered by Nord Deutscher Lloyd, Bremen
9/1921 Lütgens & Reimers, Hamburg (purchased during construction) as GRIESENWÄRDER (DEU flag, reg Hamburg, ON 5773, c/s DHJK)
1939-1945 in service with the German Kriegsmarine
1956 Georg Pahl, Hamburg, renamed ÖLSAUGER II, and converted to tank cleaning vessel by H C Stülcken & Sohn, Hamburg
(reported still in service 2002)

David, the tug is OLSAUGER II. Only picture I can currently find online of her is on page 2 here: http://andreas-westphalen.de/media/projekte/projekt_oelsauger.pdf
(though I am sure I took in Hamburg during a visit in 1999 - I will have to do some digging around).

Krispen

Can anyone decipher the name of the tug alongside?

(part of the name can just be seen indistinctly below the pedestal of the forward crane)

This is convincing, Manfred and Tomislav; I have changed the data accordingly. However, I still cannot see anything of the name.

I agree with you Manfred, I saw the same photo of this ship without the stulken derrick, this is the ship it would be very difficult that both ships had suffered the same damage to the derrick on the same time and place.

Regards

Tomi.

Hi Wolfgang,
my photo software shows me what I believe is an O as second letter of the first word.
In 1968 both ships were only one and two years old. The visible repairs are at the Stülcken mast, not really the time to do an overhaul yet.
I have found a photo of LOIRE LLOYD where she is seen without the Stülcken derrick, damaged maybe. So I think it must be her.
Rgds, Manfred
https://www.marhisdata.nl/image.php?code=9026&hash=48757075731a73a5a460b450d03f323b495c41e4&opt=5