YORKSHIREMAN

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She was built as a tug/salvage vessel under yard No 104 by the Cochrane Shipbuilding Ltd. at Selby, Yorkshire, England for the United Towing (Ocean Tugs) Ltd. at Hull.
Launched under the name YORKSHIREMAN.
Tonnage 686 gross, dim. 42.07 x 11.64 x 4.87m. (draught).
Powered by Ruston diesels 7.250 hp. (5.336Kw.) speed 13 knots, bollard pull 64 tons.
Bunker capacity 437 tons.
Accommodation for 10 crew and 6 supernumeraries.
June 1978 delivered to owners.

Built as a tug/salvage vessel and is highly maneuverable, with twin controllable pitch propellers in KORT nozzles, twin rudders and a bow thruster.

During the Falkland War in 1982 was she requisitioned by the British Royal Navy on 07 April 1982 when working in the North Sea. She arrived at Portsmouth on the 12th, and after bunkering and loading of towing and salvage gear sailed on the 13th for Ascension, where she arrived the 27th.
She was used there until 3 May and sailed that day bound for Tristan da Cunha, during that voyage she received a replacement radio transmitter dropt by a Hercules airplane, when her radio equipment failed. The dropt equipment was picked up by the workboat of the YORKSHIREMAN.
Arrived at Tristan da Cunha on 10 May and stayed there for 6 days.
24th May arrived east of the Falkland Islands, and the navy kept her there in a holding area, steaming slowly round in a five-mail area.
Sometimes used to pick up dropt men and stores parachuted in the sea.
She sailed on 5 June together with an other tug the SALVAGEMAN to South Georgia, where she assisted ships during berthing and transferring stores. She took also part in the refloating in the Argentinean submarine SANTA FE in South Georgia.
19th Arrived at Port Stanley.
28 July, she assisted by the refloating of the grounded TOR CALEDONIA.
The next day her crew was relieved and flown back to England. The YORKSHIREMAN stayed in the Falklands at least to the end of that year.

1988 Sold to Sembawang Salvage (IV) Pte. Ltd., Singapore and renamed SALVIGOUR.
1989 Sold to Slibail Portuguese de Loc. Fin. S.A. in Portugal, renamed in COMENDA.
December 2005 sold to Jens Alfastsen Rederiet, Stenderup, Denmark and renamed MIRA A.

http://www.equasis.org gives for 2006, same owner, IMO No 7621504, under Danish flag and callsign OVJH2.

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source: Buitenlandse Sleepboten. Marine News 2006/353. Merchant Ships at War, The Falkland Expedition by Capt. Roger Villar.

[Italianglo]

Hello, does anyone have any further information on this stamp, such as the collection it was included in or the year it was produced? My dad helped build this ship and I would like to find out about the stamp's availability with the aim of tracking it down.

Thank you for the information already given. Very useful resource, this website.

[D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen]

IDNo: 7621504 – Year: 1978 – Name: YORKSHIREMAN – Keel: 28.3.77 – Type: Tug – Launch Date: 28.3.78 – Flag: GBR – Date of completion: 6.78 – GRT: 686 – DWT: 509 – Yard No: 104 – Length overall: 42.1 – LPP: 36.5 – Country of build: GBR –
Beam: 11.6 – Builder: Cochrane Shipbuilders Ltd. – Selby.
Machinery Overview: 2 oil engines single reduction geared to screw shafts driving 2 CP propellers at 190 rpm – Total Power: Mcr 3,222kW (4,380hp) – Service Speed: 13.00 kts.
Prime Mover Detail: Design: Ruston, Engine Builder: Ruston Diesels Ltd. – Newton-le-Willows – 2 x 12RKCM, 4 Stroke, Single Acting, Vee – 12 Cy. 254 x 305, Mcr: 1,611 kW (2,190 hp).
Subsequent History: [Newbuilding price $2,612,881] – 88 SALVIGOUR – 89 (Portugal) – 1.89 COMENDA – 11.05 MIRA A. (Denmark DIS) – 2.07 MARECHIARO (Italy) – 3.12 (Panama) – 3.13 (Africa Savage, Freetown, Sierra Leone) – 7.14 (Panama) – 10.14 In Service/Commission – TBUX
Note:
Built in 1978 by Cochrane of Selby, YORKSHIREMAN and IRISHMAN were the most powerful pair of purpose-built tugs to enter service in the UK when they joined the fleet of United Towing.
The tugs were involved in all types of towing work in the North Sea oil fields and around the world. However, their finest and most famous days were without a doubt during the Falklands War, when they were taken into service with the SALVAGEMAN by the Royal Navy.
Their best-known exploit was in the attempt to save the Logistics Vessel (Naval Ro-Ro Cargo) ATLANTIC CONVEYOR (IMO 6926036) after she had been hit by missiles from the Argentinean Air Force; unfortunately this rescue attempt was not successful.
(Ascencion 1994, 20 p. StG.629)

[Italianglo]

Thank you for the detailed and interesting reply about the Yorkshireman tug and its colourful history. I should explain myself better, however. I am trying to track down the stamp and further information about the stamp to facilitate my search (year, collection, etc.). Did the original poster have a copy of it in order to post the image here?

[aukepalmhof]

Managed by Hakvoort Transport Shipping B.V. Urk, Netherlands.
11 January 2018 the MARECHIARO was renamed as PUMA and under the Tanzania flag and registry left the port of Harlingen, Netherlands, towed by the tug NAS PATHFINDER bound for the Mediterranean for scrapping.
13 January 2018 the NAS PATHFINDER suffers a propulsion failure, both tugs were towed to Dover, U.K., and left on 26 January Dover with the PUMA in tow.
08 February 2018 the NAS PATHFINDER got rudder problems in the middle of the Bay of Biscay and she let go of the PUMA.
The salvage tug ABEILLE BOURBON based in Brest sailed for assistance and a GPS beacon was placed on the PUMA which was unmanned and drifting freely. A Spanish tug chartered by the manager of the tugs takes the NAS PATHFINDER in tow and brings her to La Coruna were she arrived on 12 February, thereafter the tug sails out again in search for the PUMA.
08 March 2018, so far I can’t find anything on the PUMA, so it looks like she is lost.

o4 June 2018 she was broken up at Alang, by Termurtaslar GS. Source Miramar.


Source Robin des Bois shipbreaking No 50 and internet.

Tristan da Cunha 2022 £1.50 sg?, Scott?