BACK TO 1921

Voltamos ao jornal " O Telégrafo" para recordar algumas visitas de rebocadores ao nosso porto nesse ano:

No dia 15 de Janeiro de 1921, foi consignado à Bensaúde o rebocador Inglês "St. Minver" de 413 tons. e 19 tripulantes.

Launched in 1919 / end service in 1940

Other names: Abeille XXII (foto seguinte)

A 17 de Janeiro foi a vez do rebocador Inglês " St. Erth", de 441 tons.

Owner: Royal Navy (1919–1925)

J. Fenwick and Co. (1925–1964, except for RAN service)

Royal Australian Navy (1940–1942 and 1943–1947)

Builder: Murdoch and Murray Ltd, Port Glasgow

Launched: 28 February 1919

Completed: May 1919

Commissioned: RN: May 1919–September 1925

RAN: 3 July 1941–13 August 1942 and 25 February 1943–12 February 1947

Reclassified: St Erth (1919–1925)

Heros (1925–1964) (foto)

Fate: Scrapped in December 1966

General characteristics

Class and type: Rescue/Saint class ocean tug

Type: Tugboat

Displacement: 382 gross tons

Length: 135.4 ft (41.3 m)

Beam: 29 ft (8.8 m)

Draught: 13.6 ft (4.1 m)

Propulsion: 1200hp

Speed: 12 knots (22 km/h)

Complement: 32 (RAN service)

Armament: One twelve pounder gun, two 0.303

 Vickers machine guns, two depth charge racks,

two PAC rocket projectors (RAN service)

Heros (foto e informação - Wikipédia)

No mesmo dia, visitou também o Porto da Horta, o rebocador Inglês "St. Catherine" de 444 tons.

"Polaris (tug)

At Vancouver, B.C. the 135.5-foot ocean tug Polaris (the former British Admiralty tug St. Catherine and Canadian National No. 2), having returned from extended charter service to U.S. military forces in Vietnam, was sold by North Pacific Towing & Salvage Ltd., to Gulf of Georgia Towing Co. She was assigned to the 5,500-ton oil and limerock barge Gulf Alladin, receiving another name change to Gulf Freda. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1968, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.44."

Citation: Tacoma Public Library

A 14 de Fevereiro, foi a vez do rebocador Inglês "St. Athan" de 419 tons. Foto seguinte.

Finalmente a 9 de Março do mesmo ano, e também consignado à Bensaúde, temos o rebocador Inglês "St. Finbarr" de 467 tons.

"HMS St Finbarr
Rescue Tug, Saint Class - W.22
Built by Fleming & Ferguson Paisley, Yard No 463, on 7/7/1919. Broken up at Sorel P.Q., Canada, in March 1961
423 GRT; 860t displacement
135ft 6in x 29ft x 14ft 6in
Single screw, TE 3cyl, coal fired 1250ihp, giving, 12 knots
Designed Armament 1 x 12pdr Completed December 1919 and delivered to the Admiralty
1923 sold to the Canadian Government , Department of the Interior (Coastguard Service) and renamed FRANKLIN
Also used as a lightship supply vessel
1958 sold out of Canadian Govt (Department of Trade) service."

in - Clyde Maritime Forum

Pesquisa - Aurélio Resendes Vieira / Luís Correia