Directory of TID Tugs 21 - 40

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TID 21 Yard No: T421 Launched: 24 Jul 1943 Completed: 27 Sept 1943
9.1943: M.O.W.T. Commercial service. Managed by Great Western Railway.
23.2.1944: (U.S. Army).
10.11.1944: At Portland.
6.12.1944: Returned to M.O.W.T. and managed by Channel Dartmouth Coaling Co.
22.7.1946: At Portsmouth on harbour service.
5.8.1947: At Devonport for refit.
17.1.1948: (Naval work - Malta; shipped out per ss Pacific Liberty).
23.3.1959: (Bailey Shipyard, Malta). No further trace.
TID 22 Yard No: T422 Launched: 4 Aug 1943 Completed: Oct 1943
10.1943: (M.O.W.T.).
2.1944: (U.S. Army).
7.1944: (War Dept. - Army). No further trace.
TID 23 Yard No: T423 Launched: 14 Aug 1943 Completed: 18 Oct 1943

10.1943: (War Dept. - Army).
9.1944: Transferred to Naval Service at Portsmouth Dockyard.
10.10.1945: Transferred to Director of Sea Transport.
12.10.1945: Laid up.
11.1945: Ashford 23 (Chartered to Lloyds Albert Yard & Motorboat Packet Co. (Risdon Beazley Ltd.)).
1947: Tidspur (P. Foster & Co., Hull).
1956: (United Towing Co. Ltd., Hull).
28.4.1963 Scrapped Hendrik Ido Ambacht, Holland.

 

TID 24

Yard No: T424 Launched: 19 Aug 1943 Completed: Oct 1943

Naval work to: 12.1945: (Laid up).
1952: Ashford 24 (Chartered to Lloyds Albert Yard & Motorboat Packet Co. (Risdon Beazley Ltd.)).
1953: Bowman (united Towing Co. Ltd., Hull).
4.1963: Scrapped Hendrik Ido Ambacht, Holland.

 

TID 25 Yard No: T425 Launched: 25 Aug 1943 Completed: 25 Oct 1943
Naval work to: 1945: (U.S. Army).
1945: (M.O.W.T.).
1946, 29.6. laid up at Cardiff.
1946, 27.9. to Finnish Government, Helsinki (982), renamed B 3.
1946, 30.9. dlv at Cardiff, 2.10. sd for Swansea via Port Talbot.
1946, 15.12. contract with Linnan Telakka Oy, Turku, concerning repairs.
1947, 17.4. to Valtion Polttoainetoimisto (VaPo), Lappeenranta (920), 9.5. renamed MOTTI.
1959, 2.9. sold for demolition to Savon Kone ja Romu Oy, Mikkeli, broken up at VaPo's slipway at Lauritsala. (See also TID 1)
TID 26 Yard No: T426 Launched: 3 Sep 1943 Completed: Nov 1943
11.1943: (War Dept. - Army).
12.1944: Naval work to:
3.1945: (M.O.W.T.).
12.1945: Sold to Government of France. (See note under TID 91.)
TID 27 Yard No: T427 Launched: 9 Sep 1943 Completed: 15 Nov 1943

Allocated to Portsmouth Command.
5.1946: Allocated to Senior Officer Reserve Fleet at Pembroke Dock.
8.1948: (Transferred to Admiralty).
1949: (Chartered to British Transport Docks, Hull).
12.9.1950: Re-allocated to S.O.R.F. Clyde and towed there by Empire Zona 23.10.1950.
1.6.1952: (Dashwood & Partners, London). No further trace.

RECENT UPDATE FROM DAVID ASPREY (May 2010) - 'While researching some surviving records of the British Transport Commission in the National Archives, I came across a little more on TID 27.'

12.1953: Purchase of a TID tug for Humber Ports from Dashwood Engineering Ltd approved at £5500, for port of Hull.
4.1961: Sale of TID 27 to George Mortimer Hamilton-Williams for £1200.

TID 27

 

TID 28 Yard No: T428 Launched: 17 Sep 1943 Completed: 29 Nov 1943

16.3.1945: Allocated to Portsmouth.
5.1946: At Southampton under Director of Salvage.
7.9.1946: To Messrs. Tamlyn & Co., Plymouth for care and maintenance.
1949: Triune (Hull Steam Trawlers Mutual Insurance & Protection Association, Hull).
1966: Scrapped Newhaven.

 

TID 29 Yard No: T429 Launched: 22 Sep 1943 Completed: 29 Nov 1943
11.1943: (War Dept. - Army).
10.11.1944: With 21 Army Group.
12.12.1944: Sailed for Dieppe.
16.3.1945: Allocated to Portsmouth.
27.08.1946: Laid up under Care and Maintenance.
1947: Sold to United Africa Co. Ltd. And renamed Gedu.
No trace after 1955.
TID 30 Yard No: T430 Launched: 21 May 1943 Completed: 8 Jun 1943
6.1943: M.O.W.T. coastal operation.
1944, Sep, coastal service with US Army. 25.12. laid up at Portsmouth.
1945, 12.4. in commercial service, managed by Great Western Railway Co, Port Talbot.
1946, 31.1. laid up at Port Talbot.
1946, 27.9. to Finnish Government, Helsinki (983), renamed B 4.
1946, 4.10. dlv at Port Talbot, 5.10. sd for Swansea.
1946, 17.12. to Oulu Oy.
1948, 17.1. bos to Oulu Oy, Oulu (462), renamed OULU 12.
1965, laid up at Oulu.
1970, 24.11. deleted from register as broken up, hull left as barge.
1976, 5.5. to Veijo Vuolijoki, Oulu, renamed RELLU 2, rebuilt into a fishing vessel, motorized by 2x115HP 2x4 cyl oil engines by Volvo (1967). Reg. In the fishing register with SF 665.
1979, Jun. Sank off Kemi after propeller shaft had broken.
(See also TID 1.)
TID 31 Yard No: T431 Launched: 2 Jun 1943 Completed: Aug 1943
Naval work to: 11.1944: (War Dept. - Army).
12.1944: Naval work to: 5.1945: (M.O.W.T., Port duties - operated by Government of Netherlands).
1947: (Sold to France).
1955: Thaurion (E.L. Chagnaud, Marseilles).
No further trace.
TID 32 Yard No: T432 Launched: 17 Jun 1943 Completed: 19 Aug 1943

8.1943: (War Dept. - Army).
9.1944: (Admiralty). Allocated to Portsmouth.
5.3.1945: Transferred to Nore Command and sailed to Ostend.
28.2.1946: Transferred to Captain in Chief, Plymouth and allocated to Superintendent Victualling Stores Officer.
11.4.1949: Transferred to Superintendent Naval Stores Officer Devonport for Fleet Fuelling Duties and renumbered C702.
1.4.1958: Transferred to PAS for disposal. Transferred to Portsmouth.
27.1.1967: Sold to H.G. Pounds, Portsmouth.
1975: Reported scrapped Portsmouth.

TID 32

 

TID 33 Yard No: T433 Launched: 23 Jun1943 Completed: 3 Sep 1943
9.1943: M.O.W.T. commercial services.
12.1943: War Dept. - Army - 21 Army Group.
19.6.1944: Sank in heavy weather, Arromanches, Normandy beach-head, France (following D-day landings).
TID 34 Yard No: T434 Launched: 2 Jul 1943 Completed: Sept 1943
9.1943: (M.O.W.T.).
12.1943: (War Dept. - Army).
7.1945: (Laid up).
1.1946: (Chartered to Westminster Dredging Co. Ltd.).
1947, 27.3. to Finnish Government, Helsinki (1 005), renamed B 13.
1948, 17.1. to Rauma Raahe Oy, Rauma, renamed RAUMA IV.
1948, 4.8. went aground near Luvia and sank, crew saved except for the master. Refloated a couple of weeks later and repaired. A new deck house with bridge and wheel house on top was fitted.
1952, 22.2. owner's name styled Rauma Repola Oy after amalgamation with Repola Viipuri Oy.
1956, 19.7. reg at Rauma (594).
1968, sold for demolition to Helsingin Romuliike, Helsinki. (See TID 19).
TID 35 Yard No: T435 Launched: 7 Jul 1943 Completed: 20 Sep 1943

9.1943: M.O.W.T. commercial service.
12.1943: U.S. Army service.
22.12.1944: Laid up.
15.1.1945: Portsmouth Dockyard
4.4.1945: M.O.W.T. commercial service.
31.1.1946: Laid up.
1946: B5 (Government of Finland).
1947: Tommi (Finland).
1984: (Jonko & Aila, Finland).
1986, owned by Jouko ja Aila Kurppa (Vantaa).
1992, owned by Miikka Kurppa, Jan ja Peter Snellman ja Inka Ruohela (Vantaa).
2000, owned by Miikka Kurppa, Pasi Alhainen (Helsinki), Jan ja Peter Snellman (Vantaa), still sailing as steamer on the Lake Saimaa. (See also TID 1).

TID 35

 

TID 36 Yard No: T436 Launched: 15 Jul 1943 Completed: Sept 1943
11.9.1943 to 23.2.44: Managed by Great Western Railway Co.
24.2.1944 to Oct 44: U.S. Army service.
10.1944 to 11.7.45: On War Dept. - Army service).
12.7.45 to 22.1.46: Laid up.
1946: Renamed Respite. Sold to Cory Literage Co. Ltd.for use on Thames.
1955: Sold to W.Fielding, Leeds.
1957: (New (oil) engine). No trace after 1957.
TID 37 Yard No: T437 Launched: 4 Aug 1943 Completed: Sept 1943

9.1943: (M.O.W.T.).
2.1944: (U.S. Army).
12.1945: (War Dept. - Army).
1948: Sold to Belgian buyers. No further trace.

Photo and Information received from Colin Read (March 2011)

My father, a lighterman before the war, was fatally injured on board TID37 in Duisberg 1945. He was Sgt. Frederick Read and he was the skipper of TID37. He served with 940 coy IWT Royal Engineers. TID93 was also attached to this coy. I have attached a photograph of the coy in front of TID? It was taken in Belgium in 1944/45, probably on the Albert Canal.

 

TID 38 Yard No: T438 Launched: 16 Aug 1943 Completed: Oct 1943
10.1943: (M.O.W.T.).
2.1944: (U.S. Army).
7.1944: (War Dept. - Army).
1948: Sold to Belgian buyers. No further trace.
TID 39 Yard No: T439 Launched: 20 Aug 1943 Completed: Oct 1943
10.1943: (War Dept. - Army).
1949: Sold to Belgian buyers. No further trace.
TID 40 Yard No: T440 Launched: 30 Aug 1943 Completed: Oct 1943

10.1943: (M.O.W.T.).
14.4.1945: Sunk - hull, engine and boiler damaged when lock gates of Cambrian Dry Dock, Swansea, were carried away during a high tide. Repaired. (See also TID 41).
1946, 27.9. to Finnish Government, Helsinki (985), renamed B 6.
1946, 16.12. to Linnan Telakka Oy, Turku, for repair works.
1947, 17.4. to Valtion Polttoainetoimisto (VaPo), Helsinki.
1947, 2.5. dlv to VaPo, Oulu (461), renamed HONKA.
1959, 27.6. to Laiva ja Konetarvike E. Lenkkeri (Turku).
1960, 14.7. to Rakennusliike E.Nieminen, Oulu.
1961, 21.1. to Tapio Ylitalo ja Jouni Kouri, Alatornio (Tornio 76).
1961, 27.7. to Arvo Asla Kouri, Alatornio, motorized with an 300 HP oil engine.
1970's, laid up at Oulu, repair works commenced but she laid there many years and became poorer and poorer, finally she looked more like a wreck (Between 1971 86 on a slipway).
2000, 1.5. to Jarmo Rautio & Jorma Myllylä (divers), Oulu, to be reconditioned as a diving support vessel, refitted with an oil engine made 1982 by Lister Blackstone Marine Ltd. (See also TID 1).

Photo supplied by Roger Jones, reproduced by kind permission of http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/