After TID53 Later Teal information please she worked Gisborne port in the 1960s tassie48
T.I.D. 53 c/s MJQZ
O.N. 169349. 54g. 0n. 65.0 x 17.0 x 7.4 feet.
C.2-cyl. (12½” and 26” x 18”) by the North Eastern Marine Engineering Company (1938) Ltd., Sunderland. Boiler by Davey, Paxman and Co. Ltd., Colchester. Coal fuel. 260 IHP. 8½ knots.
Post 1950: Unspecified type Paxman diesel.
16.11.1943: (Ministry Job No. A/MS/829) launched by Richard Dunston Ltd., Thorne (Yard No. 462) for the Ministry of War Transport, London, (Stanley Lancelot Tottle, Hull, manager at the Ministry).
04.01.1944: Registered at Hull, vessel No.2 of 1944.
06.01.1944: Completed. Allocated to War Department duties.
26.09.1945: Returned to the control of the Ministry of War Transport.
27.09.1945: Place in lay-up.
20.03.1946: Owners restyled as the Ministry of Transport, (Stanley Lancelot Tottle, Hull, manager at the Ministry).
xx.09.1946: Sold to the Westminster Dredging Co. Ltd., London.
29.11.1946: Hull registry closed, consequent of re-registry in London
03.01.1947: Renamed W.D. TEAL.
14.08.1950: Stranded on a sandbank on the River Dee and sank
11.09.1950: Salvaged and towed to Mostyn and later to Bromborough Dock, subsequently repaired, re-engined.
1965: Operated by the Westminster Dredging Australia Pty Ltd., on contract at Gisborne Harbour, New Zealand.
1969: Transferred to Singapore for dredging work.
1971: Sold to Transworld Marine Ltd., Singapore and renamed TEAL.
1971: British Mercantile Registry closed, consequent of sale to Singapore.
9.1972: Seen operating off Katong.
1974: Lying derelict, aft end submerged, at owner’s yard at Jalan Samulun, Jurong Town, Singapore.
Final fate unknown.