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Deadlight Tow - tugs & tenders!
Posted by:
John Griffiths
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Date: June 27, 2001 07:14PM
<HTML>Hi all,
Time for a new thread!
Does anyone know from what UK ports the Deadlight tows started - or were the boats designated for deep six on Deadlight sent under their own power?
I have a copy of the excellent \'U-Boats\' by Miller, which gives some info but I\'m curious! It states that the Norwegian and German ported boats \'sailed for Loch Ryan / Lisahally.\' Which - in response to an earlier post on \'Welsh\' U-boats - clearly means that the German ported boats would have gone \'northabout\'? Did they? Or were they put into a UK port on the South coast and towed from there?
Anyone who can fling light on this please do so!
One other thing. When I was back home in Holyhead - that\'s North Wales for the geographically challenged! - there was the hulk of a tug on Salt Island pier. She looked \'European\' and built thirties / forties - straight stem, low freeboard, beautifully shaped spoon counter - and some local scuttlebutt said she was an ex-Kriegsmarine tender to one of the big battleships. I\'ll have to chase that one up but apparently she was an ex-Kriegsmarine unit. Apparently she had come to the UK, worked herself flat out for various owners and had eventually sunk in Liverpool docks, was raised and brought to Holyhead where she is to be restored to sailing trim.
Anyone an expert on surface boats, particularly tenders?
Aye,
John
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Time for a new thread!
Does anyone know from what UK ports the Deadlight tows started - or were the boats designated for deep six on Deadlight sent under their own power?
I have a copy of the excellent \'U-Boats\' by Miller, which gives some info but I\'m curious! It states that the Norwegian and German ported boats \'sailed for Loch Ryan / Lisahally.\' Which - in response to an earlier post on \'Welsh\' U-boats - clearly means that the German ported boats would have gone \'northabout\'? Did they? Or were they put into a UK port on the South coast and towed from there?
Anyone who can fling light on this please do so!
One other thing. When I was back home in Holyhead - that\'s North Wales for the geographically challenged! - there was the hulk of a tug on Salt Island pier. She looked \'European\' and built thirties / forties - straight stem, low freeboard, beautifully shaped spoon counter - and some local scuttlebutt said she was an ex-Kriegsmarine tender to one of the big battleships. I\'ll have to chase that one up but apparently she was an ex-Kriegsmarine unit. Apparently she had come to the UK, worked herself flat out for various owners and had eventually sunk in Liverpool docks, was raised and brought to Holyhead where she is to be restored to sailing trim.
Anyone an expert on surface boats, particularly tenders?
Aye,
John
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Subject | Written By | Posted |
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Deadlight Tow - tugs & tenders! | John Griffiths | 06/27/2001 07:14PM |
RE: Deadlight Tow - tugs & tenders! | chris lee | 06/28/2001 01:19AM |
RE: Deadlight Tow - tugs & tenders! | Vin | 06/28/2001 05:28AM |
RE: Deadlight Tow - tugs & tenders Chris / Vin | John Griffiths | 06/28/2001 04:11PM |
RE: Deadlight Tow - tugs & tenders Chris / Vin | chris lee | 07/02/2001 01:40AM |