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Tyne 11

Uploaded by dave-d , Jan 03 2011 01:41 PM

Tyne 11



    Steve Ellwood
    Jan 03 2011 03:09 PM
    No wonder this one capsized with the size of those 'windows'  ???

    Originally named Crete Hatch she was a concrete Tug and came from Aberdeen to Blyth in 1924 to replace TYNE a schooner which had more or less rotted away.

    Regards

    Steve

    alaska
    Jan 03 2011 04:23 PM
    isnt there another crete something beached up the wear near south hylton? whats its story?

    Steve Ellwood
    Jan 03 2011 05:13 PM
    Its Cretehauser, a fero-concrete Tug - built 1919 in Southwick by Wear Concrete Building Company Limited, a subsidiary company of Swan Hunter Shipbuilders. She was a motorised Tug built for the Royal Navy. She was used as an emergency break water just before the outbreak of World War 2 and badly damaged by the Luftwaffe which led to her being towed up to Ballina Quay in 1942 and dumped.

    Good photograph of her @ http://commons.wikim...ehauser_HDR.jpg

    Regards

    Steve

    dave-d
    Jan 03 2011 07:20 PM
    Remains of the Cretewheel at Newbiggin

    alaska
    Jan 03 2011 08:32 PM
    cheers steve i delivered a double ender to cox green years ago and remembered it was crete something or another always wondered what its story was

    Steve Ellwood
    Jan 03 2011 09:18 PM
    Aye Dave found this piece @ http://www.engineeri...tem.asp?id=1159

    Quote

    Cretewheel was stranded at Newbiggin-by-Sea on 14th October 1920, bound for Amble.

    and this from http://www.mareud.co..._ver_mehr1.html

    Quote

    CRETEWHEEL (s.tug) (Off.no.: 145008) Yard no.: ?
    Lch.: 1919, Compl.: 1920
    267 grt, 6 nrt.
    Dim: 38,10 x 8,38 x 4,50 m.
    Engine: T3-cyl., 750 ihp, Grant, Ritchie & Co, Kilmarnock, U.K. 1 screw.
    Owners:
    1917: Ordered as CT 36.
    1920: Completed for The Shipping Controller, London, U.K. as CRETEWHEEL.
    1920.10.14.: Stranded at Newbiggin-by-Sea, U.K. She was bound for Amble, U.K.

    Regards

    Steve