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LT-533 (USATS)

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Registry #1 178987 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# 5244974 MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1944 LT-533 (U.S.A.T.S.) Name 6 1964 Haida Chieftain
Name 2 1946 Foundation Lillian Name 7 2009 Audry Gail
Name 3 1949 Roy H. Peters Name 8
Name 4 1953 Escort (II) Name 9
Name 5 1954 N.R. Lang (II) Name 10
 
Year Built 1944 Place Orange Area TX Country USA
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 143.0' x 29.5' x 4.3'
Builder Levingston Ship Building Co. Measurement (metric) 41.67m x 10.06m x 4.57m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 561.08 Type 1 Tug
Registered Tonnage 21.23 Type 2
Engine 2320bhp diesel engine (1944) Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Repowered with a 2400hp Stork-Werkspoor turbocharged 6-cylinder 2 stroke engine. Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Rebuilt at Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC. Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Stefan Piotr Ogończyk Wesołowski;
 
Owner(s)
She was ordered as a steel USN ATR Rescue tug (subsequently designated as ATA auxiliary tugs) but delivered as an US Army LT deign 377-A tug. In 1944 she was involved in the invasion of Normandy. She arrived Liverpool on June 2, 1944 in convoy HX-292 (departed New York on May 19, 1944). In 1946 she was owned by Foundation Maritime, Halifax NS. In 1953 she was owned by Bulk Carriers Ltd., New Jersey USA. In 1953-1978 she was owned by Kingcome Navigation Co., Vancouver BC. In 1979-2001 she was owned by Egmont Towing & Sorting Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 2004 she was owned by Summer Holdings Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 2007-2013 she was owned by Wayden Transportation Systems Inc., Richmond BC. In 2013-2019 she was owned by Amix Marine Services Ltd., New Westminster BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2019-01-31
 
Named Features
Significance of Name LT - stood for "large tug"
 
Anecdotes
George Duddy reports that "This vessel (as the Foundation Lillian) was one of the featured vessels in Farley Mowat’s 1961 book The Serpent’s Coil." this vessel is no longer registered in Canada. In 2020 this vessel was broken up by Amix in Surrey BC.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Palm, R.S. (1978); Email (Pieter Graf - Nauticapedia 18/02/2015); http://modeltugforum.com/index.php?topic=5334.0;
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