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Name: Flying Buzzard

Certificate number: 634

Status:

Registered

Function:

Service Vessel

Sub Functional Area:

Tug

Type:

Location:

Maryport, Cumbria, England

Current use:

Undergoing Restoration

  • Length Overall:

    35.07 metres (115.00 feet)

  • Length on the Waterline:

    ( )

  • Length Overall:

    35.07 metres (115.00 feet)

  • Gross Tonnage:

    261.00

  • Draught:

    3.69 metres (12.10 feet)

  • Maximum Breadth:

    8.54 metres (28.00 feet)
Flying Buzzard - Flying Buzzard - starboard side

Web address

http://www.flyingbuzzard.com

Builder

History

Built in 1951 by Ferguson Brothers, Port Glasgow for the Clyde Shipping Company, FLYING BUZZARD is a tug of steel construction with a steam compound engine. Her working life was as a tug and a tender in the Glasgow and River Clyde areas. In 1952 she was sunk while towing an oil tanker. She was raised and her engines removed for repair. She was back in commission and working later the same year.

In 1963 she was sold to Dundee Harbour Trust and her name changed to HARECRAIG II. Sold again in 1983 for non-payment of harbour fees, her new owners, Maryport Steamship Company, sold her on to the Allerdale District Council three years later as a basis for a steamship museum. Lack of maintenance funds caused her to be sold once again to a charitable trust in 1996.

She has now been bought by private owners and is being renovated and refitted at Maryport. Plans are being made for her future with the aim of sailing her to West Coast Canada, delivering aid to Central America en route.

These brief histories are compiled from details supplied by vessel owners and enthusiasts and from various reference works. National Historic Ships would be grateful for any corrections of facts or additional information for inclusion. Please contact ron.ellis@nationalhistoricships.org.uk

Subsequent developments

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