SMITH'S DOCK COMPANY LTD., SOUTH BANK

Name BELUGA Z3
Type Admiralty Whaler
Yard Number 643
Launched 20/06/1915
Completed 08/1915
Off. Number 144686
Engine builder MacColl & Pollock, Sunderland
Engine type T. 3cyl.
GRT 237
Length (feet) 125
Beam (feet) 25
First owner The Admiralty (Royal Navy)
   
History 1920 sold to A. J. Ashwin
  1920 J. J. Esplen and in use as a tug
  02/1931 HOLLAND, Terschellinger Stoomboot Maats. (Red. Doeksen) and in use as a combined ferry and tug
  1939 BV2, Royal Netherlands Navy
  16/05/1940 seized by German forces and renamed BS III
  05/1945 recovered damaged in the Kiel Canal, towed to Rotterdam in 1946 but condemned
   
Fate 08/1946 sold for breaking, 08/1948 broken up at Hendrik Ido Ambacht.

Postcard view of her as HOLLAND from 'Collection Fleet File Rotterdam'

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