In service: 1974 - 1992
Owner: Unie van Redding & Sleepdienst NV - Antwerp.
Built: Launched 4/28/1945; phased out 08-10-1945; delivered November 1945
Shipyard: Cochrane & Sons Ltd. - Selby.
Construction number: 1301
Dimensions: 37.65 x 8.41 x 4.12 x 3.89 m.
Content: 294 GRT.
Call signal: O.R.M.B.
Lloyds/IMO: 5129227 Lloyds Register.
Machines: 3 cylinder Triple Expansion from Franklin Machine & Foundry Corporation - Providence (Rhode Island); rebuilt in 1964 and motorized with a four-stroke 8 cylinder Klöckner/Humboldt/Deutz, 400x580 from 1962 and installed in 1964; 2x four-stroke 6 cylinder Deutz of 105 apk each on a generator 63 kW/220 V/50 Hz; 1x four-stroke 4 cylinder Deutz with 70 apk on 1 generator 40 kW/ 220 V/50 Hz; 1x four-stroke 2-cylinder Deutz of 18 apk on a port generator of 6 kW/220 V/50 Hz; electric winch for the towing wire and a Bridle stopper winch; 25 ton towing hook; fire extinguishing system with Ruhr pump driven by a Hansa of 136 apk and capacity of 180 m3/h at 13 bar; 1 monitor on a mast; foam tank of 10 tons; Sprinkler installation and 66 hose connections on deck; transportable diesel pump of 160 tons and 2 of 100 tons.
Power: 800 ipk; after 1964, 2,200 MOT.
Speed: 14 knots.
Pulling force: 27 tons.
Purchased: Brought in in 1974 by Sleeping Service Letzer NV - Antwerp.
Sold: In November 1992 as HILDE to Northern Europe Shipping Ltd. {De Neef Reederij BVBA} - Antwerp (other source Ghent)

Details: From 1945 to 1947 as EMPIRE MARTHA of Ministry of War Transport (William Watkins Ltd.) - London.
In March 1946 Ministry of War Transport.
From February 1947 to August 1947 to James Contracting & Shipping Co.Ltd. - London.
From August 1947 to 1949 as FOREMAST 106 of James Contracting & Shipping Co. Ltd. - London.
Motorized in 1964 and completely rebuilt at our own yard in Boom.
Renovated again in 1981 in Terneuzen.
Laid up in Terneuzen early 1992 and offered for sale.
In November 1992 as HILDE to Northern Europe Shipping Ltd. {De Neef Reederij BVBA} - Antwerp (other source Ghent).
In June 1994 for demolition to Jacques Bakker & Zonen PVBA - Bruges.