TORQUE

TORQUE - IMO : 7606346

Built 1943 , by A. Hall and Company Ltd, Aberdeen (Yard # 690) as EMPIRE SPITFIRE

GRT : 232 / DWT : ??

Overall Length : 34.5 metres x Beam 8.23 metres.

Machinery : 1 Screw driven by a Coal Fired Triple Expansion Steam Engine manufactured by the builder

Speed : ? knots

 

History

•1943: EMPIRE SPITFIRE : British Government

•1947: WARDEN : Royal Navy

•1951: PROMPT : Royal Navy

•1975: TORQUE : Thames Services Ltd, London

•1979: TORQUE : Shoreham Salvage and Marine Ltd

•1982: TORQUE : Maryport Maritime Museum , Cumbria

•1986: Broken up at Millom, Cumbria

 

TORQUE photographed on misty day 20 May 1979 on the River Thames, belive near Tilbury

 

Ship Details : Miramar - May 2020 / Empire Ships by Mitchell & Sawyer

 

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