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<blockquote data-quote="lenny100" data-source="post: 54648">Concrete tug 'Cretehauser' was built in 1919, gutted in 1935 for use as an emergency breakwater and beached on the River Wear in 1942. <img src="http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o1/lenny100/boat1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Cretehawser was launched at Southwick in March 1919, 262 tons, 720 horsepower. One of twelve powerful, single screw ferro-concrete vessels ordered by the Admiralty in 1918 due to a steel shortage. Cretehawser was the first to be built in Sunderland by Wear Concrete Building Company Limited, a subsidiary of Swan Hunter. It was badly damaged during a World War Two air raid and subsequently towed upriver for safety. Its current position was as far as it would go before it sank. It is now a useful roost for riverside birds. Of the other eleven only two remain, one is a hulk in the River Moy, Ballina, Eire. The other was converted to part of the marine facilities at Carlingford in Eire. The rest were either wrecked or broken up</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lenny100, post: 54648"] Concrete tug 'Cretehauser' was built in 1919, gutted in 1935 for use as an emergency breakwater and beached on the River Wear in 1942. [IMG]http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o1/lenny100/boat1.jpg[/IMG] Cretehawser was launched at Southwick in March 1919, 262 tons, 720 horsepower. One of twelve powerful, single screw ferro-concrete vessels ordered by the Admiralty in 1918 due to a steel shortage. Cretehawser was the first to be built in Sunderland by Wear Concrete Building Company Limited, a subsidiary of Swan Hunter. It was badly damaged during a World War Two air raid and subsequently towed upriver for safety. Its current position was as far as it would go before it sank. It is now a useful roost for riverside birds. Of the other eleven only two remain, one is a hulk in the River Moy, Ballina, Eire. The other was converted to part of the marine facilities at Carlingford in Eire. The rest were either wrecked or broken up [/QUOTE]

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