Mv Dominant, OTC Kenneth
 
  
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Steel twin screw diesel engined tug built 1957-8 by P.K. Harris, Appledore. (Yard No 108) for the Dover Harbour Board.

 

Technical Data

Registry - Dover (1958 - 1984), San Domingo (1984 - )

ID Number - 5091834

Official Number - R-008-SDG

Length - 27.52m (99.27 ft)(overall)

26.8m (88 ft) (between perpendiculars)

Breadth - 7.60m (24.11 ft)(Extreme)

Draught - 3.04m (9.97 ft) maximum

Tonnage - 161 gross, 154

Engines - 2 x 8-cylinder 22.292 reverse reduction geared Lister/Blackstone & Co diesels

Rated - 1,040 bhp

Speed - 12.5 knots

Bollard Pull - 21 tons

Call Sign - MXXF (@ 1974), HO4065 (@ 1984)

 

History

October 23rd 1957: Launched.

March 1958: Delivered to Dover Harbour Board at Dover

 

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1984: To Frank Pearce (Tugs) Ltd at Poole

1984: To OTC - Oil Transport Co SA at Santa Domingo renamed OTC KENNETH (Operations Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and West Indies. North & South American east coast between Nova Scotia & Rio de la Plata)

August 24th 1990: Survey’s overdue - Class suspended.

1996: Still in Lloyds Register, later fate unknown 

 

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