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TID164
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Photographer:Lee Brown [ View profile ]
Title:Tid164
Photo Category:Steam Ships (operating And Preserved)
Added:Aug 2, 2007
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Image Resolution:1,566 x 2,231
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Tug TID164 at Chatham Built by Pickersgill at Sunderland in 1946, she grossed 68t and her previous name was Hercules.She had an oil fired steam compound, 220IHP 36.4NHP. by John Dickinson of Sunderland driving a single screw.Last surviving steam tug of its type in the MOD. 200 were built and to avoid diverting shipwrights from other work they were built at numerous railway and other small workshops around the country and then assembled in one place mainly by female workers. She is now undergoing preservation at Chatham Dockyard in Kent. Photo July 2001.
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TID-class (numbered from 1 to 183, no nr 13) (T.I.D.=Tug,Inshore and Dock)
54 GRT, 14 NRT,
Loa:21,87m(19,82), B:5,49m, D:1,836m(2,44) (74.0'(65.0')x17.0'x7.4' or 74'0"(62'3")x18'0"(17'0")x5'11.1/2"(8'0"))
Hull: welded steel,
Machinery: 1 scr, C2cyl by ?? (first 90 coal fired, next oil fired), 42nhp-220ihp
Speed: 8,5 kn
TID 164
1945 -xx/08: Launched by "Wm Pickersgill" at Sunderland (GBR) (YN 291)
1945 -xx/11: completed for the UK MOWT Ministry of War Transport, allocated to naval service at Port Edgar, attached to HMS LOCHINVAR
1947: Chartered to "Port of London Authorities" at London (GBR)
1948 -12/08: permanently transfered to naval service
1962 -12/12: In reserve at Rosyth (GBR)
1967 -05/05: brought forward from maintained reserve at Rosyth and active until replaced in 11/1973
1974: To Chatham Dockyard (GBR)
1974 -10/06: To "Medway Maritime Museum" in Kent (GBR) for £1750
1975: To "International Towing Ltd", navigating for the Medway Maritime Museum, renamed HERCULES
1978: restorated by Martin Stevens at Sittingbourne, Kent (GBR), re-renamed TID 164
2005: Still owned and run by Martin Stevens on the Medway (GBR)
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