CONTRACTOR

CONTRACTOR – ON : 183681

Built 1950, by Charles Hill & Sons, Bristol (Yard # 363) as REGENT WREN

GRT : 116 / DWT : 176

Overall Length : 27.9 metres x Beam 5.9 metres.

Machinery : 1 Screw driven by a Ruston & Hornsby : 4-stroke single acting 5-cylinder oil engine

Speed : 7.0 knots

 

History……………………….. POR = Port of Registry

1950: REGENT WREN : Regent Oil Co. Ltd., London : POR Bristol

•1960: Lengthened to new Overall Length : 37.04 metres / New GRT 161

1971: CONTRACTOR : Allantone Supplies Ltd., Felixstowe : POR Felixstowe

1984: TAFFGARTH : Cory Ship Towage Ltd. : POR ??

1990: TAFFGARTH : Silas Oates. : POR ??

•1990: Converted to water carrier, Scilly Islands

1990: TAFFGARTH : Stephen Palk : POR ??

1991: TAFFGARTH : Henty Oil Ltd., Liverpool : POR ??

•1991: Converted to bunkering barge

2003: Reported broken up at Liverpool

 

CONTRACTOR seen 13 June 1981 at Harwich

 

Ship Details : Miramar - shippingandshipbuilding.uk

 

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