| History | |
|---|---|
| Name |
|
| Operator |
|
| Port of registry |  |
| Builder | Eltringham and Company, South Shields |
| Yard number | 291 |
| Launched | 24 October 1912 |
| Fate | Scrapped December 1962 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 168 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 105 feet (32 m) |
| Beam | 21 feet (6.4 m) |
| Draught | 9.4 feet (2.9 m) |
PS Pen Cw was a tug built for the Great Western Railway in 1912. [1]
The Pen Cw was built by Eltringham and Company in South Shields and launched on 24 October 1912. She was used as a tug for tender operations at Fishguard Harbour.
On 1 July 1927 she was sold to the Tees Towing Company in Middlesbrough for £1,750 (equivalent to £106,800in 2020) [2] and renamed Ingleby Cross. On 29 November 1933 she was sold to the Grangemouth and Forth Towing Company and renamed Elie. From November 1939 to February 1942 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and used in Rosyth Dockyard.
In December 1962 she was sent to White and Co at St Davids on Forth for scrapping.
Seaspan ULC provides marine-related services to the Pacific Northwest. Within the Group are three shipyards, an intermodal ferry and car float business, and also a tug and barge transportation company that serves both domestic and international markets. Seaspan is part of the Washington Companies, owned by Dennis Washington. Seaspan is run by his son Kyle Washington, as Executive Chairman, who has become a Canadian citizen. Seaspan ULC was formerly known as Seaspan Marine Corporation, and prior to that Washington Marine Group.
SS City of Midland 41 was a train ferry serving the ports of Ludington, Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and Kewaunee, Wisconsin, for the Pere Marquette Railway and its successor, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from 1941 until 1988. The ferry was named after the city of Midland, Michigan.
PS Norah Creina was a paddle steamship operated by the Drogheda Steam Packet Company from 1878 to 1902 and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1902 to 1912.
Santa Kyriaki was a 2,958 GRT cargo ship that was built in 1945 as Empire Crusoe by Ailsa Shipbuilding Co, Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). She was sold in 1946 and renamed Greenland and a further sale in 1955 saw her renamed Heminge. In 1956, she was sold to Liberia and renamed Maria Luisa. A sale in 1963 to a Panamanian company saw her renamed Santa Kyriaki. She served until running aground off IJmuiden, Netherlands in 1965 and was scrapped in 1966.
TSS Malines was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1921.
The Type V ship is a United States Maritime Commission (MARCOM) designation for World War II tugboats. Type V was used in World War II, Korean War and the Vietnam War. Type V ships were used to move ships and barges. Type V tugboats were made of either steel or wood hulls. There were four types of tugboats ordered for World War II. The largest type V design was the sea worthy 186-foot (57 m) long steel hull, V4-M-A1. The V4-M-A1 design was used by a number of manufacturers; a total of 49 were built. A smaller steel hull tugboat was the 94-foot (29 m) V2-ME-A1; 26 were built. The largest wooden hull was the 148-foot (45 m) V3-S-AH2, of which 14 were built. The smaller wooden hull was the 58-foot (18 m) V2-M-AL1, which 35 were built. Most V2-M-AL1 tugboats were sent to England for the war efforts under the lend-lease act. The Type V tugs served across the globe during World War II including: Pacific War, European theatre and in the United States. SS Farallon and other Type V tugs were used to help built Normandy ports, including Mulberry harbour, on D-Day, June 6, 1944 and made nine round trips to Normandy to deliver Phoenix breakwaters.