DANUBE IV

Shipbuildervessel built by Alexander HALL & Co. (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1927

Object NameTUG

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 110 3/12' x breadth 27 7/12' x depth 13'
Gross Tonnage: 239 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001490

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 604
Official Number: 149816

Fate: unknown, last mention in Lloyd's Register 1968-69.

Port of Registry London.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw tug, electric light fitted.

Owners:
1927: Tilbury Contracting & Dredging Co. Ltd, London.
1967: Change of owners to Westminster Dredging Co. Ltd.

General History:
06/04/1927:
Launched at Footdee, 4th vessel built for these owners in 18 months. Machinery supplied by builders, consists of triple expansion engines, cylinders 15 1/2, 25 + 49 inches, with 30 in. stroke, boiler width 14 1/2 ft. x 11 1/2 ft. with 100 lb pressure. Built to Lloyds highest class.
(Press & Journal)

29/04/1927:
Trial trip 28 April before proceeding to London, where she will be used in connection with dredging operations on Thames. Engine dimensions indicate special power development for heavy work to be undertaken. Easily registered 12 1/2 knots over measured mile, owners repesentatives satisfied with performance [Scotsman, 06/05/1927 - left Aberdeen 5 May for London towing barge Strumble].
(Press & Journal)

02/06/1938:
DANUBE IV, commander Capt. John Jeans, carried managing director of owners and harbour officials from Queen's Quay to Quigley's Point to inspect dredging work there. Tug went alongside dredger, party subsequently entertained to light refreshment aboard tug.
(Londonderry Sentinel)

22/02/1939:
5 February Samuel Kydd, cook, drowned after falling from DANUBE IV. Chief engineer testified Kydd had taken drink, but was not incapable, saw him fighting and took him upstairs to bridge, from which he fell into tide. Resident magistrate hoped men employed by the Dredging Co. would do their drinking ashore.
(Derry Journal)

23/02/1939:
DANUBE IV left Londonderry for Belfast towing barge Lune Deep.
(Londonderry Sentinel)

30/12/1939:
Photo of DANUBE IV leaving Londonderry in September after completing dredging scheme in river Foyle.
(Londonderry Sentinel)

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 15½", 25" and 42" cylinders, 30" stroke. Boiler 14'9" diameter, 11'6" length, 190 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)