Category:Coringa (tugboat, 1914)

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Ship[edit]

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• Built by: William Denny & Bros, Dumbarton, United Kingdom
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• Launch date: 17.12.1913
• Date of completion: 25.2.1914
• Length over all: m
• LPP: m
• Beam: m
• Draught: m
• GRT: 294
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• Main engine: 1,481 ihp
• Speed: kn
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History[edit]

• 1914 Named: Coringa for The British India & Queensland Agency Company Ltd Brisbane. Flag: Australia.
• 05.1917 Requisitioned and sent to the United Kingdom and armed and outfitted at Devonport (as pennant W12) for salvage, rescue, minesweeping and patrol, with a 12-pounder on the bow and a semi-automatic 6-pounder mounted on the engine-room skylight, and manned with the incredible number of 49 crewmen for such a small vessel, working from Devonport, Pembroke, Milford Haven, and Scapa Flow.
• 1918 Towed a German submarine to various ports for exhibition, and later towed U-101 from Leith to an anchorage in the Thames, off the Houses of Paliament.
• 1919 Refitted again at Devonport
• 10.1919 Left Rosyth with the Dutch dredger Merwede in tow for Singapore, before returning to Brisbane to resume her commercial activities
• 01.1940 Requisitioned again by the Admiralty, Coringa travelled again to Britain.
• 23.06.1940 Lost in the Atlantic, with the actual circumstances of her loss never clearly defined