Port registry: Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)
Type/class: "Laurindo Pitta" class - tug boat
Ex-names: - - - -
Built by: Vickers Sons & Maxim Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness (UK) in 1910
Restored by: EISA - Estaleiro Itajaí S.A. (Metalnave Group), Itajaí, Santa Catarina state (Brasil) in 1999 (bow trusther was added too)
Photo place: Brazilian Navy Museum, Rio de Janeiro city, in State of Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)
Date: 15/10/2003
Owned/operated by: Brazilian Navy
Observations: to see more details visit: http://www.naviosdeguerrabrasileiros.hpg.ig.com.br/L/L009/L009.htm

* This vessel still in operation in Guanabara Bay, it all starts on the quay of Espaço Cultural da Marinha where visitors board this tow-boat and make a tour passing near of Sugar Loaf Mountain, Brazilian Navy School, Brazilian Navy Headquarters (part), Modern Art Museum (project by Oscar Niemeyer) and other beautiful and important places in Rio de Janeiro.
** The tug boat Laurindo Pitta is the only ship left from the Brazilian Naval Force that took part in the World War I.

Photo by Rogério Cordeiro 8-)