261 grt. Operator : Ship Towage (London) Ltd.
Built 1943 by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole. Yard no. 398.
Main engine: 1,000 ihp, oil-fired, triple-expansion, steam reciprocating by McKie & Baxter Ltd, Paisley.
Built as EMPIRE JESTER, a wartime standard-design tug of the ‘’Modified Warrior/Roach’’ class and handed to United Towing Co Ltd, Hull the appointed managers.
1946: To William Watkins Ltd and renamed NAPIA.
1950: To Ship Towage (London) Ltd.
1968: London Tugs Ltd (following amalgamation with W H J Alexander Ltd (Sun Tugs).
1971: To John G Efthiniou, Greece, renamed TOLMIROS
1973: To Loucas Matsas, Greece (name unchanged).
1986: broken up by (M Tzounis + Co) at Perama,Greece.
(C)Bob S 1968
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