Flipbook: Drawing of Dunston Diesel Engined Launch Tug, 1950
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Drawing of Dunston Diesel Launch Tug, 1950
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Richard Dunston Drawing Number 5320, dated 31 May 1950
This drawing shows the outboard profile of a vessel designed by Richard Dunston, shipbuilders, of Thorne, Yorkshire. Dunstons had established quite a reputation as a builder of quality tugs which was enhanced by the large numbers of vessels produced for the armed forces during World War II.
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By examining the vessel photographs in the Dunston book ….almost a Century of Shipbuilding and comparing the key dimensions shown therein, it appears that the drawing relates to Churn, described on page 46 as a Single-Screw Diesel Towing Launch for Thames Service.
Our Richard Dunston Yard List shows Churn as Yard No T.804. She was completed on 26 May 1952 for owners, Thames Conservancy.
Source
This drawing has been contributed by Graham Buckton, once a volunteer at the Yorkshire Waterways Museum (YWM), and now a trustee of this Society. Once upon a time the original drawing tracing was found by Graham, discarded, in the lobby of The Goole Model Boat Club on Dutch Riverside, Goole where Graham was a member. Seeing it was in danger of being binned he gave it a home, where he recently rediscovered it in his own collection of waterways memorabilia.
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