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This photo was taken in Hamburg in May 1981 on board the
tug Hendon, where we were to tow a brand new floating
crane to Port Suez. The job was eventually aborted due to
financial wranglings.The crew are.....Back Row Myself, Capt. Frank Heslop,
Clifford Hughes, Gordon Harris, (all have since crossed the
bar) Front Row.....Mike Arthurs, John Blackmore, Jack Gunshon. |
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This photo was taken in 1997 when five of us
received gold watches in recognition of 30 yrs. service From
left....Graham Davies, Myself, the late Clifford Wiltshire, Billy Doel and my brother Sidney Tovey. |
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This picture was taken in October 1998
on the sad occasion of Howard Smith Towage deciding to cease trading in
Swansea. The photo was taken aboard the Egerton. |
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The Trover.
The Trover, the last tug ever to be painted
in the livery of the Britannia Steam Towing Company.
Built in 1943 by Richard Dunston, Hessle, as
TID 59. purchased by A.T.C.L. in the early seventies for
Civil Engineering work at the new Port Talbot Tidal Harbour.
Later sold and renamed Lady of Menai.
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The photos below are
of the first three tugs to be brought to Swansea at the start of the
Alexandra Towing Company’s activities at the port in 1924. The ‘Canada’
arrived in March of that year, with the ‘Albert’ and the ‘Herculaneum’
following in December. The company opened its office in Somerset Place,
Swansea, in January 1925.
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ALBERT.
148 GRT, 5 NRT,
(92.5'x20.1'x10.8')
steel, 1 scr, C2cyl
by shipbuilder, coal fired, 69nhp-600ihp, sp 12kn
1902: Built by "John
Jones & Sons" at Birkenhead (YN 190)
1902 -xx/04:
delivered to "ATCL - Alexandra Towing Co Ltd" at Liverpool
(GBR flag,
regd Liverpool, ON 115267)
1933 -xx/01: sank
after hitting a sunken coal elevator in Canada Dock (3 crew lost),
raised and rebuilt
1938: transferred to
Swansea
1939: broken up at Llanelli.
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CANADA 1893:
Steel, 1 scr, C2cyl by "Muir & Houston"
at Glasgow, coal fired, 74nhp-550ihp. Built by "S. McKnight & Co"
at Ayr (GBR) (YN 41) 1894 -xx/01: delivered to "ATCL - Alexandra Towing
Co Ltd" at Liverpool (GBR) (GBR flag, regd Swansea, ON 102127)
1950: for breaking up to "Rees Bros" at Llanelly (GBR) |
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HERCULANEUM
Steel, 1 scr,
C2cyl by shipbuilder, 79nhp 1909: Built by "John Cran &
Somerville" at Leith (GBR) (YN 68) 1909 -xx/03: delivered to "ATCL -
Alexandra Towing Co Ltd" at Liverpool (GBR) (GBR flag, regd Liverpool,
ON 127966, c/s MCXR)
1914 : in war service with the UK Admiralty
Broken up at Cork in 1961. |
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