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1945: Historic Melbourne tugboat KEERA [I] with naval ratings aboard - HWT Collection, SLV.
4870. Owned by the second Melbourne Steamship Company Ltd [1884-1961] the 100 tons gross tugboat KEERA is seen here on naval duties in Melbourne in 1945, with a couple of naval ratings aboard.
The photo caught our attention as we had a recent image of HMAS QUICKMATCH being tended by the same venerable tug in the Yarra River in the mid-1950s, built in 1926, at pic NO. 4267, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/5591252794/
KERRA became the property of Howard Smith Industries with its takeover the Melbourne Steamship Company in 1961, and - the Flotilla Australia website tells us - was sold to Antonios Miltonis of Williamstown in 1967, and converted to a trawler. That's our last trace of this vessel. A second much larger tug named KEERA came into service in Melbourne, in 1985, we think, and as far as we know is still in service., She was involved in the rescue of the grounded coal carrier PASHA BULKER off Newcastle's Nobby's Beach in 2007.
Photo: Herald and Weekly Times Ltd Collection, State Library of Victoria [LaTrobe Library], accession number hp004761.
1945: Historic Melbourne tugboat KEERA [I] with naval ratings aboard - HWT Collection, SLV.
4870. Owned by the second Melbourne Steamship Company Ltd [1884-1961] the 100 tons gross tugboat KEERA is seen here on naval duties in Melbourne in 1945, with a couple of naval ratings aboard.
The photo caught our attention as we had a recent image of HMAS QUICKMATCH being tended by the same venerable tug in the Yarra River in the mid-1950s, built in 1926, at pic NO. 4267, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/5591252794/
KERRA became the property of Howard Smith Industries with its takeover the Melbourne Steamship Company in 1961, and - the Flotilla Australia website tells us - was sold to Antonios Miltonis of Williamstown in 1967, and converted to a trawler. That's our last trace of this vessel. A second much larger tug named KEERA came into service in Melbourne, in 1985, we think, and as far as we know is still in service., She was involved in the rescue of the grounded coal carrier PASHA BULKER off Newcastle's Nobby's Beach in 2007.
Photo: Herald and Weekly Times Ltd Collection, State Library of Victoria [LaTrobe Library], accession number hp004761.