A POWERFUL TUG.
What is called—quite accurately" no doubt—the highest-powered tug of her class in the British Isles, has been launched by Messrs. Alexander Hall and Co., of -Aberdeen;"for 1 & 'Belfast owner This ivessal—the Audacious—has Taeen specially designed for handling the largest vessels built on the Lagan—a pretty large order. She is 95ft in length' between . perpendiculars, 23ft in moulded breadth, lift 9in in depth, and is being supplied by her builders with triple expansion engines capable of developing 1000 1.n.p., and giving a speed ot 12 knuis. 'The vessel has powerful salvage appliances, fire pumps, and steam %ts, so that she will be of great general value to the port of Belfast—while she is waiting for the opportunity of handling that IOOOft- liner which the Lagan i§, tc turn, out some day, comments '.'The Syren.'l. :\..
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1923, Page 14
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136A POWERFUL TUG. Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1923, Page 14
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