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Name: A F D 15
Type: Admiralty Floating Dock
Launched: 1941
Completed: 12/1941
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:
12/1941 British Admiralty
22/05/1946 Niehuis & van den Berg, Rotterdam
No further history known
Comments: Sisters were A F D 14 & 16
Dimensions: overall length, width between walls & max internal draft
07/01/1942: Towed from the Tyne to Stornoway by EMPIRE LARCH
08/10/1943: Towed by EMPIRE IMP to Greenock
1946: Towed to Rotterdam by WITTE ZEE


From Palmers' own publication - Palmers Hebburn 1939-1945. Photo courtesy of Kevin Blair