Directory of TID Tugs 81 - 100

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TID 81 Yard No: T490 Launched: 18 Apr 1944 Completed: 26 May 1944

Naval work (M.O.W.T.) to:
10.11.1944: Portsmouth Pool operating in Southampton and Shoreham area.
4.1946: To Captain in Charge, Portland, then to Messrs Townsend Bros Ltd. for care and maintenance.
1.1947: (Laid up).
11.12.1950: Sea Prince (C.J. King & Sons, Bristol).
16.10.1957: Run down off Avonmouth while towing Cato, (1946, 939 gt), the ship's bow running over the tug's stern and causing it to capsize. Sank. Total loss.

TID 81

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TID 82 Yard No: T491 Launched: 21 Apr 1944 Completed: June 1944
Completed by C.D.Holmes, Hull
7.1944: (War Dept. - Army).
1948: Sold to Belgian buyers.
No further trace.
TID 83 Yard No: T492 Launched: 26 Apr 1944 Completed: 5 Jun 1944
6.1944: U.S. Army.
10.11.1944: To Director of Sea Transport.
1945: To Captain of Dockyard, Chatham.
1958: Relieved by Diver.
10.3.1961: Michael Hamilton (conversion to oil engine commenced) (M. Williams, Orpington, Kent).
1966: Sold (incomplete) to Electro Marine Ltd., London, and:
1967: Scrapped Erith, Kent.
TID 84 Yard No: T493 Launched: 29 Apr 1944 Completed: July 1944
Completed by C.D.Holmes, Hull
7.1944: (M.O.W.T.).
1946: W.D. Duck (Westminster Dredging Co. Ltd.).
14.8.1950: Stranded on sandbank in River Dee.
23.8.1950: Refloated, and:
26.8.1950: Arrived in tow at Bromborough Dock.
Reported later sold to foreign buyers.
(See also TID 53).
TID 85 Yard No: T494 Launched: 2 May 1944 Completed: June 1944

7.1944: (M.O.W.T.).
1948: Sold to Belgian buyers
No further trace.
TID 86 Yard No: T495 Launched: 6 May 1944 Completed: July 1944
Completed by C.D.Holmes, Hull

1944: (M.O.W.T.).
1946: Bernie (Hull Steam Trawlers Mutual Insurance & Protection Association, Hull).
No trace after 1955.

TID 86

 
TID 87 Yard No: T496 Launched: 10 May 1944 Completed: June 1944
1944: (M.O.W.T.).
1946: Gilder (Hull Steam Trawlers Mutual Insurance & Protection Association, Hull).
No trace after 1955.
TID 88 Yard No: T497 Launched: 15 May 1944 Completed: June 1944
1944: (M.O.W.T.).
1948: Sold to Belgian buyers.
No further trace.
TID 89 Yard No: T498 Launched: 17 May 1944 Completed: June 1944
Naval work to:
12.1945: (Government of France).
(See note under TID 91).
TID 90 Yard No: T499 Launched: 13 Jun 1944 Completed: 24 Jul 1944
Completed by C.D.Holmes, Hull
Naval work (M.O.W.T.)
10.11.1944: Allocated for service at Ostend.
12.1945: (Laid up).
28.2.1946: Arrived Plymouth for Royal Naval Armament Depot, Bull Point.
7.1947: In care and maintenance at Royal Naval Armament Depot, Bull Point.
11.8.1947: Sailed for Milford Haven and transferred to Royal Naval Armament Depot. Also used by Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Milford Haven.
1948: (Admiralty).
1952: Ashford 90 (Lloyds Albert Yard & Motorboat Packet Co. (Risdon Beazley Ltd.)).
1953: Yeoman (United Towing Co. Ltd.).
23.4.1963: Scrapped Hendrik Ido Ambacht.
TID 91 Yard No: T500 Launched: 16 Jun 1944 Completed: July 1944
Completed by C.D.Holmes, Hull
Naval work to:
1945: (M.O.W.T.).
12.1945: (Government of France - Civil Port Administration, Le Havre).
In 1945 seven TID-type tugs were transferred to the Government of France and put to work in various Channel ports. Later, in 1951, it was reported that five TIDs had been sent to Indo-China, this following the despatch of TID 20 in 1948. The five TIDs retained the prefix of their names but were given new numbers, becoming TIDs I to V. Of these, one was transferred to Vietnam in March 1953 and renamed H.Q.9502, while the remaining four were either also given to Vietnam or discarded in 1956.
However, from six 'probable' TID tugs (Nos. 26, 42, 63, 67, 89 and 91) it has not proved possible to ascertain which five went to the Far East. Additionally, no further history details have been traced, and it is likely that six, not five, tugs were actually shipped.
TID 92 Yard No: T501 Launched: 22 May 1944 Completed: 18 Aug 1944
Completed by C.D.Holmes, Hull

Naval work (M.O.W.T.)
26.11.1944: Allocated for service at Rouen.
24.1.1945: Sailed for Southampton. Allocated to Portsmouth Pool for towing outside port limits.
27.9.1948: Teshi (United Africa Co. Ltd., Liverpool) (for groundnuts scheme).
Presume subsequently scrapped.

TID 92

 
TID 93 Yard No: T502 Launched: 28 May 1944 Completed: Aug 1944
Completed by C.D.Holmes, Hull
Naval work to:
1950: Nubia (Elder, Dempster Lines Ltd.).
10.1959: Broken up
TID 94 Yard No: T503 Launched: 1 Jun 1944 Completed: Aug 1944
Completed by C.D.Holmes, Hull
Naval work to:
1948: Sold to Belgian buyers. No further trace.
TID 95 Yard No: T504 Launched: 5 Jun 1944 Completed: Aug 1944
Completed by C.D.Holmes, Hull

1944: (M.O.W.T.).
1946: Ernest Brown (T.R. Brown & Sons, Bristol).
1966: (New (oil) engine).
19..: (Evans Marine Ltd., Maidenhead).
1986: (Reported sold to a London buyer; vessel sent to work on civil engineering project near Paris, on River Seine).

Update: 1996 - Attended a sailing ships regatta in Brest but never left. It stagnated for a few years in a ships graveyard at Landévenec.
2010 - April 15: Lifted out of the water to be transported to Guyot Environment Company to be broken up. Information supplied by Hervé Cozanet in France. For more photos please visit this link

http://www.marine-marchande.net/Jourlejour2/AujourleJour-242.htm

TID 95

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TID 96 Yard No: T505 Launched: 9 Jun 1944 Completed: Sep 1944
Completed by C.D.Holmes, Hull
1944: (M.O.W.T.).
1947: (Admiralty). No further trace.
TID 97 Yard No: T506 Launched: 22 Jun 1944 Completed: 12 Sep 1944

Naval service at Rouen, Ostend and Dover.
16.3.1945: To Captain in Charge, Nore's Pool at Sheerness.
11.1945: To Captain of Dock, Chatham.
29.12.1962: Capsized and sank at Chatham Dockyard while assisting the R.F.A. Hebe to berth.
Hebe, a Royal Fleet Auxiliary store ship, entered Chatham Dockyard via the South Lock with a bitterly cold north east wind behind her. Several craft were on duty to assist berthing Hebe in No.3 Basin, among them TID 97 with its crew of five :- skipper, mechanician, stoker and two seamen. The berthing procedure was hampered by the NE wind and Hebe's engines were brought into use; the resulting pull and the wash from her propellers swiftly capsizing the tug. The two seamen took to the water and swam to safety, but the other three men were trapped in the upturned vessel. Heroic efforts by the two seamen Shrimplin and Wollard followed, aided by sailors from HM Ships Diamond and Chichester, together with the Dockyard's own rescue services. But to no avail. TID 97 sank after half an hour, taking with her the skipper, Leslie Savage, Mechanic George Osbourne and Stoker William Gell. Early the following week the Fleet Salvage vessel Swin came up from Dover to raise TID 97 from 30 feet deep. (This account courtesy of Chatham Dockyard Historical Society, from booklet No. 14 The Tiddlers by Harold Bennett, edited by Peter Dawson.)
4.1.1963: Refloated.
31.10.1963: Sold (R.F. Horlock, Mistley, Essex).
No further trace.

TID 97

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TID 98 Yard No: T507 Launched: 29 Jun 1944 Completed: 22 Sep 1944
Allocated to Captain in Charge, Nore's Pool.
9.6.1945: To Director of Sea Transport and prepared for service in the Far East.
8.1947: Transferred to Government of Burma on arrival at Rangoon.
11.1947: (Inland Water Transport Board, Rangoon).
No further trace.
TID 99 Yard No: T508 Launched: 5 Jul 1944 Completed: 22 Sep 1944

Allocated for service at Rouen.
16.3.1945: Re-allocated to Portsmouth Pool for towage outside port limits.
1948: (Admiralty).
3.9.1957: To Captain of Dock, Portsmouth Dockyard.
11.6.1963: Sold to H.G. Pounds, Portsmouth. Later reported scrapped.

TID 99

 
TID 100 Yard No: T509 Launched: 9 Jul 1944 Completed: 22 Sep 1944

9.1944: War Dept. - 21 Army Group, Coastal Towing.
21.2.1949: Released from service and boiler cleaned at Sheerness.
7.1.1958: Richard Abel (R. Abel & Sons Ltd., Liverpool).
1966: Scrapped by T.W. Ward, Barrow.

TID 100