1954, y.n. 886
For Royal Engineers, Marchwood, later Haulbowline Industries. Idle at Cork 2004.

Tulagi, less commonly known as Tulaghi, is a small island (5.5 km by 1 km) in the Solomon Islands, just off the south coast of Florida Island. The town of the same name on the island (pop. 1,750) was the capital of the Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1896 to 1942, and is today the capital of the Central Province.

The island was originally chosen by the British as a comparatively isolated and healthier alternative to the disease-ridden larger islands of the Solomons.

TULAGI on the slip in 2009. Photo courtesy of Torstein Saksvik

Presumably still at Cork?
Someone did once explain the PT48 number in my photo, but I forget what it was!

A nice little video clip of TULAGI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WuXsAXU ... ture=email

Poor old thing, what a mess (and that goes for the tug as well)

TULAGI
O.N.302133. 37g. 15n. 56.0 x 15.0 x 7.0 feet approx.
As built: 4-cyl. 2 SCSA (12½" x 18½") GMB-4 type by H. Widdop and Co. Ltd., Keighley, double reduction geared to a single fixed pitch propeller. 200bhp.
19xx: Refitted with an unspecified type Caterpillar engine. 360bhp.
19.8.1954: Launched by Richard Dunston Ltd, Thorne (Yard No. T886) for the Australian, Corp of Army Engineers.
11.1954: Completed for the UK Government – Ministry of Defence, Army and allocated to Marchwood, Southampton.
1974: Sold to Port Talbot Diving and Marine Services Ltd (A.J.Doig), Port Talbot. Registered for fishing with the number PT48.
19xx: Sold to Haulbowline Industries Ltd, Cork (Capt. Con Lynch) subsequently re-engined and part rebuilt.
2008: Lying in the River Bandon, Cork, for sale.
2009: Reported as sold to North Wales based divers, but no reports since that time.