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KENT


Registered: LR50-51:65397 /LR56-57:66140 /LR60-61:67518 /LR66-67:518532
IMO 5185324 /(GBR)ON 182217 - 118296
121 GRT,
Loa:27m(24,82), B:6,71m, D:2,8m (88.0'(81.4')x22.0'x9.6'(11'6"))
Machinery: 1 scr, diesel 5cyl British-Polar (nr.E 657) type M45M, 880bhp-671kW @275rpm

KENT
1948: Built by "Richards Iron Works Ltd" at Lowestoft (GBR) (YN)
1948: Delivered to "J.P. Knight Ltd" at Rochester (GBR) (first diesel tug on the Medway) (GBR flag, regd Rochester, ON 182217)
1969: Mng "Caledonian Towage Co Ltd" at Invergordon, Scotland (GBR)
1988: Laid up at Chatham Reach, outside the Historic Dockyard
1995 -12/10: For conservation to the "SETS - South Eastern Tug Society" for £1,00, berthed in No 1 Basin, Chatham Dock (GBR)
1998: Engine started for the first time since 1990
1999 -17/01: Test run in No 1 Basin(GBR flag, ON 118296, c/s MYXD7)
20010: Still in existence, kept in spic-and-span condition

Seen at Gravesend on the 5th August 2004

(C)Bob Smith

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