View from North Shields showing a couple of TIC vessels, SWAN & PATROL, in the foreground. The Shields ferry NORTHUMBRIAN is looping round to come into the ferry landing and in the distance is the 1957 build FJORDAAS. Photo courtesy of Kevin Blair.


An enlargement of SWAN can be found at: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=15492

Now the TIC Patrol was built by Philip & Son Ltd at Dartmouth.

Steel Steam Survey Launch.
29 Gross. 13 Net.
60.0 x 11.0 x 5.7 ft.
C.2-cyl engine. 10 RHP 140 IHP 11 knots.
Water Tube Boiler working at 185 psi.
Price £3,750.
Launched 1924 and Scrapped 1964.

Thanks to Paul's information, this is a poor quality scan of PATROL featured in Derek Blackhurst's book on Philip & Son Ltd