The Angola stamp issued 1999 of “Barco do Mundo” depict the paddle tug DROMEDARY with the year 1844, it took my a while to find out that the year on the stamp must be wrong, not any tugboat under that name and year was built, but she was built in 1894. Comparing the stamp with the image on this URL she is the same tug.
http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/resu ... lag=2&imag
Built as a steel hulled side-paddle tug under yard No.390 by Barclay Curle & Company, Glasgow for the British Admiralty.
31 May 1894 launched under the name DROMEDARY.
Tonnage 410 gross ton, dim. 144 x 27.5ft.
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After completing based at Portsmouth and used for all kind of towing and other general harbour purposes.
February 1923 sold.
Fate unknown.
Additional info welcome.
On Angola 1999 KZr 950.000.00 sg?
Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Ships of the Royal Navy Volume 2 by J.J.Colledge.