"JAVA"

Foto : coll. Victor Biemans

1905 JAVA, 1915 CARCASS, 1919 JAVA
 
Registered: LR25-26:23480 /LR35-36:10129 /LR43-44:09393 /LR47-48:09064 /LR50-51:64224 /LR56-57:64916 /LR60-61:66161 /LR66-67:517067
(GBR)ON 120611
128 GRT, 6 NRT, (94.0'x19.6'x10.9'  or  100'0"x19'7"x12'9")
steel, 1 scr, T3cyl by "G.T. Grey" at South Shields, 99nhp-500ihp
 
JAVA
1905: Built by "Cochrane & Sons Ltd" at Selby (GBR) (YN 353)
1905 -xx/10: delivered to "William Watkins Ltd", mng J.S. Watkins at London (GBR)
        (GBR flag, regd London, ON 120611, c/s HDPL)
1915 -21/07: requisitioned by the UK Admiralty, for the Downs Boarding Flotilla, based at Ramsgate, renamed CARCASS
1919 -14/05: returned to owners
193x: (GBR flag, regd London, ON 120611, c/s MCGX)
1939 -xx/09: requisitioned on Miscellaneous Naval Duties
1939 -09/10: on Port Duties, later Contraband Control, then Port Duties again
1940 -29/05: during the Dunkerque evacuation, assisted the bombed an sunk Clyde paddle steamer 'Waverley', rescuing 120 men
1945 -08/12: returned to owners
194x: mng J.R. Watkins
1950: To "Ship Towage (London) Ltd" (GBR), an amalgamation of Watkins and Elliott's
1952 -xx/10 L.R. class expunged due to defects
1965 -xx/06: for disposal and sold for demolition to breakers at Benfleet, Canvey Island (hull stripped)
1965 -xx/10: hull resold and towed to "Metaalhandel en Sloopwerken H.P. Heuvelman NV" at Krimpen a/d Ijssel (NLD)
1966 -xx/04: sold again to "J. Bakker" at Brugge (BEL) and arrived at Brugge on 03/05/1966