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NIPAROUND

DEFIANT
Built 1957 by Richard Dunston Ltd., Thorne. L61.4'. B15.3'. D8.4'. 43grt. 202bhp diesel engine. Kort nozzle.

1957 Delivered to North Thames Gas Board., London.
1965 Sold to J.T. Palmer & Sons., Gravesend, renamed Niparound.
197? Sold to J. Dinwoodie & Sons, Granton.
1985 Rebuilt, renamed Defiant. Reengined 270bhp 6cyl Lister-Blackstone diesel. Regd Granton. ON387816
19?? Sold to Briggs, Burntisland
2002 Derelict on beach at Voe, Shetland Islands.
201x: broken up

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