TUGS & SALVAGE

Towlines

24 years ago

Sanmar Ltd of Istanbul, Turkey, has completed the tug Dogancay V, very similar vessel to the Docancay IV described in Maritime Journal in March of this year. A vessel of 25.25m in length she is powered by two Caterpillar 3512 TA main engines producing a total of 2890bhp to drive twin Nautican propellers rotating in high thrust nozzles – each equipped with high aspect double rudder flaps.

The tug is fully equipped, meets SOLAS, and is held ready for immediate sale.

Among a sizeable list of floating plant advertised for sale by the United States Army, at their Depot at Hythe on Southampton water is a series of six 32.6m (100ft) tugs. The tugs and plant are part of the US Army ‘forward deployed watercraft package’ from where vessels are held in a preserved condition for rapid deployment.

Five of the six single screw tugs were recently reconstructed to a high standard and fitted with 2150bhp EMD main engines, new gearboxes and fixed nozzles. The sixth vessel is of the same US Army Large Tug (LT) design but is a bare hull stripped ready for refurbishment when the rebuild programme was curtailed.

The Environment Agency has purchased and refitted the 250bhp launch tug to replace a ageing Wey operating in the Richmond and Kingston areas of the Thames. Built post war as the Blackboys and operated until recently by Cleanaway Ltd as the Caspar C, she is a vessel of 13.72m and 22grt. The tug was renamed Falcon Brook at a ceremony at Teddington earlier in the year and described by the local press as an Emergency Towing Vessel!

The new Damen Stan Tug 1605, Jack James has been delivered to James Butcher & Sons of Portsmouth. This vessel is the most powerful version of this popular tug/workboat design and will be described in detail in the October issue of Maritime Journal.