Unknown = HMS Stalker

Try "Stalker". It looks as though someone had a problem painting the waterline.

Fred

Its HMS Stalker -she was built by Canadian Yarrow at Esquimalt, Canada in 1944 and was not completed until 1945. Stalker did not arrive in the UK until sometime in 1946. After 1947 LST (Landing Ship - Tank) 3515 was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Stalker, and was employed as a submarine support vessel and sent to Londonderry, Northern Ireland. She was transferred to the Royal Naval Base at Rosyth, where she carried on her role as a submarine support ship even after being transferred to Babcock Marine when the dockyard changed hands. She became redundant from her position as a submarine support ship in 2002, when the repair of Nuclear Submarines stopped, and went up for sale as scrap. She was transferred to Pounds Marine Shipping, Tipner, Portsmouth to await either scrapping or buying or being restored. Dont know if she is still there.

Chris.

Hello Fred and Chris
Yes this is the Stalker and she remained here in Londonderry until 1970 and was towed away by the R.F.A. tug Reward. I included an article on her in my recent book MEMORIES OF THE DERRY QUAY.
best regards
fred

Looks like a Bustler class tug on port side of Stalker, could well be Reward.

The tug on the port side is "RFA Samsonia" as confirmed in the photograph shown at http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/71806/cat/500/ppuser/14317
Picture must have taken during Samsonia's time in Portsmouth. (Thumb)