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Old 08-19-2021, 01:42 AM
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Steam Tug

This is the "William C. Daldy". While she's a New Zealand vessel she was built in Glasgow in 1935 and is fairly representative of a vessel built right across Europe at that time. She's a proper steam vessel so she can actually do her rated 13 knots (24km/ph) and has a crew of ten. I've fixed up the plans a bit for clarity for you.

My only problem with her is that she's a harbour tug and thus has a deeper draught than a river tug. She's actually too deep for the upper Vistula as rated in the scenario which is given as 4.0 metres. Maybe she lurks downriver and you have to take her.
Here's her stats.

Specifications
Built: 1935 by Lobnitz & Co., Renfrew, Glasgow, Scotland. Yard number 986.
Launched: 1st October 1935. Left U.K. 7th November 1935 Arrived Auckland 30th January 1936
Total Price: £30,499 Sterling including delivery to Auckland
Registered tonnage: 348 gross
Speed: 13.4 knots on trials
Bollard Pull: 17 tons (at approximately 1,300 I.H.P.)
Registered Length: 127 feet (38.7 metres)
Beam: 34 feet 6 inches (10.5 metres)
Draft: 15 feet (4.5 metres)
Boilers: Two coal fired Scotch boilers, with 3 furnaces in each
Engines: Two triple expansion steam engines, surface condensing. 980 Indicated Horse Power each. 110 - 115 revolutions per minute.
Propellers: Two 11 feet (3.4 metres) diameter
Bunker capacity: 130 tons
Coal consumption: Long tow 1 ton/hour. Harbour work 3 - 3.5 a day
Crew): 10 - Master, Mate, 2 deckhands, 3 engineers and 3 firemen.









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