Name: | A F D 14 |
Type: | Admiralty Floating Dock |
Launched: | 1941 |
Completed: | 10/1941 |
Builder: | Palmers Hebburn Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | |
Dimensions: | 240ton lift, 142.5 x 27.5 x 12.5ft |
Engines: | None |
Engines by: | n/a |
Propulsion: | None |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
10/1941 | British Admiralty |
28/10/1958 | Curacao Trading, Amsterdam |
13/01/1959 | Surinaamse Dok en Scheepsbouw, Paramaribo; renamed DOK I |
No further history known | |
Comments: | Sisters were A F D 15 & 16 |
Equipped with a slave raft | |
Dimensions: overall length, width between walls & max internal draft | |
Towed from the Tyne to Scapa Flow by EMPIRE LARCH | |
1946: Moved to Whale Island Portsmouth | |
28/10/1958: Raft sold to HG Pounds, Portsmouth | |
1958: Sold to Curacao Trading, cost £24,000 | |
01/12/1958: Towed to Ijmuiden by HUDSON | |
13/01/1959: Towed to Paramaribo by WITTE ZEE | |
Still in service in 1980s but since replaced |
From Palmers' own publication - Palmers Hebburn 1939-1945. Photo courtesy of Kevin Blair
At Paramaribo in 1959. Photo copyright of Universiteit Leiden