Category:Fearless (tugboat, 1945)

Ship[edit]

• Type: Deep-sea salvage Tug
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• Built by: Midlands Shipyards Ltd Ontario Canada
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• Date of completion: May 1945
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History[edit]

• 1945 Named: ROCKWING for the Royal Navy Flag: Canada
• Renamed: TAPLINE 2
• Sold to Arabian American Oil Co Renamed: ABQAIQ III
• 1953 Sold to Macdonald Hamhton & Coy. Renamed: FEARLESS Flag: Australia
• 23.12.1953 Arrived in Brisbane
• 1972 Mr Keith LeLeu, a retired merchant seaman, offered to buy her for the scrap value, however, the owners asked him for the token amount of one dollar. Mr LeLeu assembled a crew of volunteers who sailed Fearless from Brisbane to Adelaide, taking nine days and enduring some rough weather. They had four overnight stops and at each town along the way, the ship with the dollar sign on her funnel attracted quite a lot of attention.
• 1982 Left on the bank of the Port River adjacent to the Birkenhead Bridge. *
• 10.12.1972 Arrived Port Adelaide. Laid alongside the Sugar Company at Glanville.
• 04.1973 Keith LeLeu donated his museum including the Fearless to the National Trust. The condition was that they buy the Tug for a dollar. The National Trust’s collection including Fearless was later handed over to the History Trust, of which the South Australian Maritime Museum is a division.
• 1983 Put ashore at Cruickshank’s Corner