Admiralty tugs were tugboats built for and operated by the Royal Navy. These were vessels built to Admiralty specifications and in specific classes during the First and Second World Wars. They were built to meet the Royal Navy's demand for auxiliary vessels and to supplement the civilian tugs requisitioned by the Admiralty for war service.

ATR-1-class rescue tugs of the Royal Navy (1 P) F. Favourite-class tugboats (1 C, 13 P) ... The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Admiralty tug; B. HMS Blackcock; D. Director-class tugboat; E. Empire Maple-class tug; F. RMAS Fiona (A148) H. HMAS Heros; M. HMDYC Moorstone; S ...

Admiralty tugs were tugboats built for and operated by the Royal Navy during the 20th century. These were vessels built to Admiralty specifications and in specific classes during the First and Second World Wars.

The Admiralty's need for powerful ocean-going rescue and long-haul towage tugs can at most be described as ‘occasional’ and therefore was largely met by charter from the commercial towage industry. The war brought an increased need for tugs required by the Admiralty, the War Office and the mercantile shipping !

May 23, 2016 · When a guided bomb sank SS Rhona off the Algerian coast in November 1943 the Rescue Tug Mindful saved over 250 lives. But more than a thousand US Army personnel were killed or drowned, the heaviest loss of life the US Army suffered at sea during the entire war.

Several classes of Admiralty tug were operated as well as other vessels obtained Rescue tugs operated by His Majesty's Rescue Tug Service and civilians through Ministry of War Transport. Saint; Rollicker; Brigand; Assurance; Favourite; Bustler; Nimble; Envoy; Director; Harbour tugs, operated by Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service, Robust; West ...

Admiralty tugs were tugboats built for and operated by the Royal Navy. These were vessels built to Admiralty specifications and in specific classes during the First and Second World Wars. They were built to meet the Royal Navy's demand for auxiliary vessels and to supplement the civilian tugs requisitioned by the Admiralty for war service.

The St. Fagan was a Saint Class Admiralty Tug, one of a fleet especially built for the Royal Navy. Most naval bases were reliant, to a degree, on civilian tugs to operate; in order to supplement them, the Navy ordered their own fleet of tugs.

The 55 mile tow out of the Medway and up the Thames, then the biggest tow attempted by steam power on the river, demonstrated to the Admiralty the power and usefulness of steam tugs with which they had been experimenting since the 1820s.

HMS ‘Envoy’ was the first of a class of six tugs built for the Admiralty by Cochrane & Sons of Selby for war-time general rescue and salvage work at sea. More specifically they were intended for use on D-Day.