Flying Duck
Ship Number
1564
Vessel Type
Tug
Built
A&J Inglis
Launch Date
May 23, 1956
Delivered
October 29, 1956
Owner
Clyde Shipping Co.
Weight
176 grt
BP Length
87 feet
Breadth
26-11 feet
No. of Screws
Single
Speed (approx)
12 knots
Propulsion
British Polar Engines Ltd Glasgow - 2SCSA 6cy (340 x 570mm) Polar M46M oil engine, 1040bhp, 13.5 tons bollard pull.
Official No.
185048
Registered
Glasgow
Fate
Scrapped
Flying Duck

Transferred to Clyde Shipping (Tugs) Ltd 1976, Sold to Dundee harbour Trustees and renamed Scotscraig in 1976.
 
Sold to CW Shipping Ltd, Limerick, Eire and renamed Shannon Estuary I  in 1986.
 
November 1989 laid up with surveys overdue. September 1998 she was abandoned as a derelict at Cahiracon on the River Shannon, SW Ireland.
 
16 November 2000 she was observed as lying in readiness for demolition at Cahiracon together with an obsolete dredger, barges and a salvaged coaster, all formerly part of the CW Shipping Ltd fleet.