I have a picture of ST-771 Lucien Saumure in my dads WW 2 pictures don't know if that was the tug he was master of in 1944.

Thank you very much Kyle and davidships !

I have now received from you so much valuable & interesting information about this fortunately still alive "very oldie" Tug.
I admit and remain thankful that you have 100% satisfied my queries regarding the subject Tug & its great historical path followed all the way up till today.

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 doo, Rijeka and reverted to tug
http://www.sun-adria.hr/

For a better idea of what her original appearance was, see the ALICE E, which was built in 1944 as DPC 32.

Goes to show, one never knows when or where they might come across a historic vessel.

Regards,
Kyle

WOW & still alive !! ... "Most likely used in the English Channel for D-Day and then sold off as surplus after the war"

Thank you very much Emmanuel, David and Daniel for your kind comments and interesting information provided !
Best regards/Jadran

The bulwark on top of the wheelhouse and the streamlining of her funnel indicate her sojourn in Germany.

Looking at the hull and wheelhouse detail, this tug was one of 100 DPC class tugs built during WW-II. Most likely used in the English Channel for D-Day and then sold off as surplus after the war. She has been greatly altered along the way.

This a very typical US tug of the 40s with quite large superstucture and funnel but small working space aft.thanks Jadran.