BALTIC JET with TIDEWATER 60 alongside in Alex 10.08.76

That crane looks to be a sister of the Tees Floating Crane

Nice memento of UBC and the Finnish service from 1/2 Sheds, Alexandra Dock.
For the crane, being a dumb craft I have only built 1943 and ON.168856. Broken up 11/1979.
Must have been from a war-built series.

Looks very much like a product of Palmers Hebburn Co Ltd. Would be nice to know her MOWT number.

From Palmers, I have MOWT 4 becoming the Tees Floating Crane with a yard no. 306/4 so maybe one of a bigger series?

MOWT 11-14 were self-propelled and completed by J.Russell, London

Maybe Paul can find her in his MNL's, she does not seem to show up in the Clip website.

Strange yard number? I Don't suppose they built 4 of them under the same 306 number MOWT 1-4? Didn't realise that the later ones were both larger and self propelled. Was TIDEWATER 60 self propelled?

Sorry, I had them all as assumed self-propelled but as the Tees crane and TIDEWATER 60 were dumb, presumably 11-14 were as well.

Unfortunately, M.O.W.T. floating cranes do not seem to be very well documented!

EMPIRE SHIPS lists 14 of them and gives their managers during the war, but no subsequent history.
MOWT 1-6 were fabricated by Fairfield SB & E Co. Ltd., Chepstow and Newport, completed Palmers (Hebburn). Their yard nos are given as 306/1 to 306/6.
MOWT 7-10 were completed by Fleming & Ferguson Ltd., Paisley, and all had their own separate yard no.
MOWT 11-14, fabricated by Palmers (Hebburn) were completed by J. Russell & Co. Ltd., London, but no yard nos shown.

Miramar lists only four of them: M.O.W.T. 7 became the BIRKET from 1946; M.O.W.T. 10 was later renamed NEWSHOT then IONA-B; no subsequent history is given for M.O.W.T. 8; M.O.W.T. 9 became the LONDON TITAN in 1947.

From Dave's http://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/index.html we know M.O.W.T. 4 was later the TEES FLOATING CRANE from 1948 (viewtopic.php?f=139&t=443) but he does not have any further information about M.O.W.T. 11.

MOWT 10 is listed on Clydesite, along with MOWT 7 which became the BEVERLEY then LONG ROCK after being the BIRKET, and broken up 2006; and also MOWT 9/LONDON TITAN.

I don't recall ever seeing the TIDEWATER 60 (so how long was she based at Hull?) and, for now, it seems her history may remain a mystery?!

Ron

Thanks Ron

A wild guess comes up trumps with 306/1-6. Brilliant. Thank you.

Also good information about others of the series. I feel sure that TIDEWATER 60 was one of the 306 contract.