Ship/Place/Originator: AnticLeft to right:
Tom McKay, Bob Walton, Pete Everard
This picture was taken on the one of the tugs used for gunnery shoots.
Rescue Tug of the Assurance class
Navy The Royal Navy Type Rescue Tug Class Assurance Pennant W 141 Built by Cochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) Ordered Laid down 25 Nov 1942 Launched 24 Mar 1943 Commissioned 28 Jun 1943 End service History HMRT Antic (former name Ant, renamed Antic in 1942 before being launched). Manned by a civilian crew from the Netherlands from June 1943 until 1945. Became a Royal Navy Fleet Tug in 1946. Scrapped in November 1969.
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