SIR CHARLES ELLIOTT 1902

[john sefton]

SIR CHARLES ELLIOTT
Type of vessel: Tug, Ships number: 816043
Bullders: Fleming and Ferguson of Paisley In service: Sept. 6th, 1902 Bullt for: Table Bay Harbour Board
Dimenslons: 119 x 25.1 x 15.08 m
Tonnage: 291.93Gt.
Engines: Compound direct acting surface condensing by builders.
History/Notes: The Table Bay Harbour Board's last purchase was put into service in Table Bay in 1902. She was named after sir Charles Elliott, General Manager of the Cape Government Railways. She was a bit of a disapointment to some because of her retum to compound engines and her single funnel. In 1926, she was transferred to Walvis Bay and was wrecked on Rocky Point off the Skeleton Coast on 3rd December 1942 after having assisted the sinking Dunedin Star (which had gone aground near the mouth of the Kunene river on the Angolan border), unfortunately some of her crew did not make the shore . The stamp shows the Sir Charles Elliott and the Dunedin Star. - South Africa 1994 95c SG846

[aukepalmhof]

Built as a tug under yard No 305.
28 February 1902 launched as the SIR CHARLES ELLIOTT.
Two 4-cyl. compound steam engines, 184 nhp, twin shafts.
April 1902 completed.