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Vulcan

 
 


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Length: 120.0 ft.
Breadth: 25.1 ft.
Draft (or Depth): 11.8 ft.
Tonnage: 288 (gross); 239 (underdeck); 5 (net)
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 383
Launched: March 4, 1893
Maiden Voyage:
Disposition: 1927 - Scrapped
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Port of Registry: Southampton, England
Flag of Registry: British
Funnel color:
Company flag:
Signal Letters: S P H C
Wireless call letters:
Details: Steel hull; one funnel; two screws; one deck


 

Relationship to Titanic disaster / inquiries.

One of two tugs that threw lines aboard New York, keeping her from striking Titanic as the latter, while leaving her Southampton dock, drew the former toward her.


Data:

March 4, 1893

Launched

September 20, 1911

Southampton: Assisted Olympic after collision in the Solent with cruiser HMS Hawke.

1916-18

Worked war cargo at French ports; returned to company service after war

1927

Scrapped at Milford Haven

 


Courtesy: John P. Eaton. Used with permission.