I'm fairly sure I'm allocating this to the correct NEM forum!

ACCORD (A90) (5001671), 640gt, completed A.& J.Inglis Ltd., Pointhouse, Glasgow, 10-1958
Sunk as a target.14/06/1986

See also: http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=10483

From my negative collection, photos taken by Alan Sparrow: Ron M

Interesting funnel behind her, wonder who she is?

Its the KHARG, George.

Here's a couple of shots of ACCORD probably taken around the same time as the other pictures .
Not my own photographs given to me by a good friend of mine who was Radio Officer aboard her

So did she hit the lock gate, come to the Tyne to be repaired and was she then sunk as a target??

It seems to be M.O.D. policy to spend a fortune on Installations/Ships and then dispose of them shortly afterwards

magoonigal wrote:So did she hit the lock gate, come to the Tyne to be repaired and was she then sunk as a target??

Let's look at the evidence. No doubt the locals will keep me right, but it looks to me as though the KHARG in the background and at right angles to the ACCORD is in drydock. This would seem to most likely accord with her being in Brigham & Cowan drydock in July 1984 as seen at: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4082. If so, this was still a couple of years before she was sunk as a target.

Ron M

From another source, built 1958, paid off June 1985 after being used as a Lock Gate Fender at Rosyth? sunk in 1986, as you say a couple of years after the photographs. I have never heard of a Tug being used as a Lock Gate Fender seems to be an expensive repair for a vessel being used as a Fender. The top set of photographs look like different damage to the set of photographs by nightrucker.

I Have just phoned my old mate who was on the accord at the time she stoved her bow in.
Apparently she had been having Problems with her Variable Pitch Propellers and was coming alongside a Dutch RFA Possibly called POOLSTER in Rosyth Dockyard
when her Engines went full ahead and she shot down the Dutchmans ships side and went head on into the North wall hence the damage in 2 places the bow and her starboard side this happened in about 1979
Regards
Dave

V.P.P's can be a nightmare a especially the early ones it's usually a Drydock job, VPP stick, Clutches stick which brings me back to my comments about having large Commercial Craft in Marinas like Hartlepool where your pride and joy may be moored.
Has the Accord had Bow damage twice?