ST Sea Alarm
{{Short description|UK tugboat built in 1941}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2017}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Tug 'Sea Alarm' Welsh Industrial & Maritime Museum, Cardiff 28.10.1992 (10391907323).jpg |Ship image size = 180 |Ship caption=ST Sea Alarm, formerly Empire Ash. }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country= |Ship flag= |Ship name=*Empire Ash (1941-46)
|Ship ordered= |Ship builder= John Crown & Sons Ltd, Sunderland |Ship original cost= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched= 13 August 1941 |Ship completed= 17 October 1941 |Ship yard number= 201 |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship owner=*Ministry of War Transport (1941-46)
|Ship operator= |Ship registry=*{{Flagicon|UK|civil}} Glasgow (1941-56)
|Ship renamed= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship honours= |Ship captured= |Ship fate= Scrapped 1998 |Ship identification=*Official Number 168694
|Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship tonnage= {{GRT|263}} |Ship displacement= |Ship length= {{convert|107|ft|8|in|m|2|abbr=on}} |Ship beam= {{convert|26|ft|2|in|m|2|abbr=on}} |Ship draught= {{convert|12|ft|5|in|m|2|abbr=on}} |Ship draft= |Ship hold depth= |Ship propulsion= 1 x triple expansion steam engine (Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne) {{Convert|102|hp|kW|abbr=on}} |Ship sail plan= |Ship complement= |Ship armament= |Ship speed= |Ship notes= |Ship capacity= }} |
ST Sea Alarm was a 263-ton tug which was built as
Empire Ash in 1941 for the British Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). She was sold in 1947 and renamed Flying Fulmar. She was sold in 1956 and renamed Sea Alarm. On retirement in 1973 she became an exhibit at the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum in Cardiff, but was controversially scrapped in 1998 after the closure of the museum.
History
File:Sea Alarm, Cardiff, Feb 1976.jpg
Empire Ash was built by John Crown & Sons Ltd, Sunderland as yard number 201. She was launched on 13 August 1941{{cite book |first1=W. H. |last1=Mitchell |first2=L. A. |last2=Sawyer |year=1995 |title=The Empire Ships |page=316 |publisher=Lloyd's of London Press |location=London |isbn=1-85044-275-4 }} and completed on 17 October 1941.{{csr|register=MSI|id=5315943|accessdate=1 February 2009}} She was built for the MoWT. On 15 May 1946, Empire Ace was sold for £18,750 to Clyde Shipping Co. Ltd, Glasgow and renamed Flying Fulmar. In May 1956{{cite web|url=http://ca.geocities.com/ventures0@rogers.com/sunderland15.html |title=Industrial Sunderland - page 15 / Shipbuilders - page 4 |publisher=Thomas Hemy |accessdate=1 February 2009|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081215052909/http://ca.geocities.com/ventures0@rogers.com/sunderland15.html|url-status=dead |archivedate=2008-12-15}} she was sold to C. J. King & Sons, Bristol, and renamed Sea Alarm. She was operated under the management of the Alarm Steam Tug Co. Ltd. In January 1973 she was sold to Thos. W. Ward, Briton Ferry, for scrapping, but was resold the following month to the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum in Cardiff. She was restored by 1978 and was dry-docked for many years at Roath Dock. The museum closed on 1 June 1998 and Sea Alarm was scrapped apart from her engine.{{cite news|author=Roger Dobson |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/shops-replace-ships-as-maritime-history-goes-west-1162369.html |title=Shops replace ships as maritime history goes west |work=The Independent |date=2 June 1998 |accessdate=17 December 2019}} Questions were asked by the Select committee on Welsh Affairs about the scrapping of the tug as there was public outcry at the time.{{cite Hansard|house=House of Commons|title=Select Committee on Welsh Affairs: Examination of witnesses |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmselect/cmwelaf/258/8102609.htm |date=26 October 1998|accessdate=13 October 2013}}
Official Number and code letters
Empire Ash had the UK Official Number 168694 and used the Code Letters BCRK.{{cite web|url=https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/shipdata/pdfs/43/43a0196.pdf |title=LLOYDS REGISTER, STEAMERS & MOTORSHIPS UNDER 300 TONS, TRAWLERS &c.|publisher=Plimsoll Ship Data|accessdate=1 February 2008}} Official Numbers were a forerunner to IMO Numbers. Sea Alarm was subsequently assigned IMO number 5315943.
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References
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External links
- [http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/printthread.php?t=489 Ships Nostalgia] thread about Sea Alarm
{{Commons category|IMO 5315943}}
{{John Crown ships}}
{{Empire ships}}
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Category:Ships built on the River Wear
Category:Ministry of War Transport ships
Category:Merchant ships of the United Kingdom
Category:Steamships of the United Kingdom
Category:Tugboats of the United Kingdom