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Hercules

 
Red Funnel Line
 


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Length: 135.5 ft.
Breadth: 24.1 ft.
Draft (or Depth): 11 ft. (depth)
Tonnage: Gross, 234 tons; net, 41 tons
Engines: Triple-expansion, 6 cyl. 2 each: 15", 24", 39" x 28" stroke; 1,200 h.p.
Speed:
Builder: Barclay, Curle & Co., Ltd., Glasgow, yard number 366
Launched: September 11, 1899
Maiden Voyage:
Disposition: 1926 - Broken up by Pollock, Brown, Southampton
Particulars:








Port of Registry: Southampton, England
Flag of Registry: British
Funnel color:
Company flag: Divided by crossed lines into four equal triangles: Blue at hoist, white top, green at fly, red at bottom
Signal Letters: L W N Y
Wireless call letters:
Details: Steel hull; one funnel; two screws; one deck; smack rig


 

Relationship to Titanic disaster / inquiries.

One of the tugs that got lines aboard the New York and kept her from striking Titanic as the latter was leaving her Southampton dock.


Data:

September 11, 1889   

Launched

November 12, 1889   

Trials

1903   

New boilers

1914-18          

Worked war cargo at the French ports of St. Nazaire, later LeHavre

1926   

Broken up by Pollock, Brown, Southampton

 


Courtesy: John P. Eaton. Used with permission.