Anyone help please

[Doc Vernon]

Can anyone on here perhaps help me in Identifying this Tug.

It i know is a Tug used in Dar Es Salaam and it was about 1960/61

At close look it looks like the name is :STAR" but i am not sure as i have searched the Net, and not come up with any name like that.

Would appreciate a bit of help here
Thanks
Cheers

Tug Need Name please.jpg

[j.sabourn]

That could be the Neath on her bow Vernon ? If you google tugboat neath , there was one built originally for Port Talbot later sold to Middle East interests and finally broken up in 1964.
Just a wild guess ? JS sorry on closer look the second letter on name is a T I think , my eyes are US. JS

[John Arton]

It could be the Marie felling, there is a picture of her in a port in Mombasa on the net.
Rgds
J.A.

[Graham Shaw]

Looks like NYATI to me? on very patient close inspection !.......That's a Swahili word for a buffalo.

in which case our tug is probably 2sc m.tug NYATI built by Inglis,Partick,Glasgow ,1951:-

ON	LR/IMO	ID	Year	Name	Tons	Change	Starke	Ref.	Registered Owner	Port
174433	5259395	5259395	1951	NYATI	359		V1951	#547	East African Railways & Harbours Administration	GBR Mombasa
	5259395	5259395	1951	NYATI	359	1970	V1951	#547	East African Harbour Corp	TZN Dar-es-Salaam
	5259395	5259395	1951	NYATI	359	1980	V1951	#547	Tanzania Harbours Authority	TZN Dar-es-Salaam Deleted from Registry 2001/2

[Johnny Kieran]

Just had a butchers, and found that tug. Seems graham is right, but the picture I got is same shape, but painted black. I blew up the picture posted on here, and I'm sure it's named NYATI.

[Doc Vernon]

It could be the Marie felling, there is a picture of her in a port in Mombasa on the net.
Rgds
J.A.

Thanks JA , it certainly does look like her, however on close look i notice that her two side Bloweres (Stacks ??) are facing the wrong way. Could well be a sister Tug?
Thanks again appreciated

Marie Felling Tug.jpg

[Doc Vernon]

Looks like NYATI to me? on very patient close inspection !.......That's a Swahili word for a buffalo.

in which case our tug is probably 2sc m.tug NYATI built by Inglis,Partick,Glasgow ,1951:-

ON	LR/IMO	ID	Year	Name	Tons	Change	Starke	Ref.	Registered Owner	Port
174433	5259395	5259395	1951	NYATI	359		V1951	#547	East African Railways & Harbours Administration	GBR Mombasa
	5259395	5259395	1951	NYATI	359	1970	V1951	#547	East African Harbour Corp	TZN Dar-es-Salaam
	5259395	5259395	1951	NYATI	359	1980	V1951	#547	Tanzania Harbours Authority	TZN Dar-es-Salaam Deleted from Registry 2001/2

Hi Graham
Thanks for the suggestion and yes does look by all the info that i could well be the Tug i am after.
As yet i have not been able to get a Pic though , but one site i came across with all the info as well, and had her Home Posr as Dar Es Salaam. So that alone puts her in contention. I will continue to search the Net for a Pic.
If anyone else gets one of this Tug, namely the one that Graham posts please do share.
Much oblidged!

I found this Pic which is the Tug in Question, Copy Righted so give the Link only.

Pity it is not a full Pic though. But going on searching!
Cheers

Tug Boat Nyati Dear es Salaam - Search