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Name: NORA
Type: Yacht
Launched: 21/12/1879
Completed: 12/1879
Builder: Charles Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 392
Dimensions: 339grt, 219nrt, 176.8 x 26.1 x 13.4ft
Engines: CI2cyl (25 & 45 x 27ins); 75nhp; (1966: Oil engine, 2SA, 6cyl (320 x 480mm), 485bhp)
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle; (1966: VEB Schwermasch "Karl Liebknecht", Magdeburg)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 94507
History:
12/1879 Jean Baptiste Perrett, Marseille
30/05/1888 Donald Horne Macfarlane, Southampton; renamed HIAWATHA
1892 Archibald Wiliam Montgomerie, Irvine (Earl of Eglington & Winton)
1892 James Douglas Baird, Glasgow
1909 William Baird, Elie
1910 William Rice, Southampton
1910 Camper & Nicholson Ltd, Southampton
1910 Max Schultz, Southampton
1910 H Hiller & W Lang, Hamburg; renamed CLARA
1913 Noel Pemberton Billing, London; renamed HIAWATHA
1915 REV James Ltd, Southampton; renamed POLYGON
1915 Vincent Stephen Emanuel Grech, London
1916 Renamed LA VALETTE
1917 Henry Mulleneaux Grayson, Liverpool
1917 The Ocean Salvage Co Ltd, London; renamed LA VALETTE
1918 Restyled Salvage & Towage Co Ltd, London
1923 Restyled The Ocean Salvage Co Ltd, London
1930 Philip Charles Cecil Vail, Istanbul
1930 TurkGemi Kurtarma Anon Sirketi, Istanbul
1932 Renamed LAVALET
1935 Renamed AKBAS
1938 Deniz Bank Turk Gemi Kurtarma, Istanbul
1944 Devlet Denizyollari ve Limanlari Turk Gemi Kurtarma, Istanbul
1952 DB Gemi Kurtarma Isletmesi, Istanbul
1966 Sultan Kurt ve Ort at Istanbul; renamed YENI GUNDOGDU
1980 Haslamanlar Gemicilik, Istanbul
1984 Tahir Kose ve Ortaklari, Istanbul; renamed B. KARTAL
1993 Ali Tonbayoglu, Istanbul
No later history known
Comments: 1916: Converted into a salvage vessel / tug
1917 to 1919: On Admiralty service as a salvage vessel
1966: Converted into a cargo ship & re-engined
2005: Discarded


Above photo as NORA is copyright of Northumberland County Council Archives

Above photo as YENI GUNDOGDU is copyright of Malcolm Cranfield