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Name Official number Flag IMO
NEPTUNE  105519  GBR   
Year built Date launched Date completed
1896  29/04/1896   
Vessel type Vessel description
Tug Tender  Steel Screw Steamer  
Builder Yard Yard no
Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow Clydeholm Yard  405 
 

Tonnage Length Breadth Depth Draft
262 grt / 8 nrt / 135.5 ft  25.0 ft  11.3 ft   
Engine builder Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow
Engine detail
Twin C2cyl 19"38"x27" 120nhp 1200ihp 13½kn 2-screw 

First owner First port of register Registration date
Southampton, Isle of White and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Co Ltd, Southampton  Southampton   
Other names
1909 FORTITUDE 
Subsequent owner and registration history
6/1904 The Admiralty, London 
Vessel history
19/5/1896 arrived Southampton from the Clyde
c1898 310grt 8nrt
1904 served as tender to base ship HMS VIVID at Devonport, and target towing
Renamed FORTITUDE on launching of battleship HMS NEPTUNE. 
Remarks
 
End year Fate / Status
1923  Broken Up 31/01/1923 
Disposal Detail
31/1/1923 sold to Carriden Shipbreaking Co, Bo'ness for demolition. 
 

 

at Southampton
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in naval service
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as FORTITUDE
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