Everard Tug

This picture shows the SA Everard on 29th June 1976, sporting the Everard colours on the funnel, just passing under Tower Bridge in the Pool of London.
Everard's commisioned in 1939 from the builders, Fellows & Co of Great Yarmouth, a tug  which was to operate in the Pool Of London. It was fitted with an 8cylinder 800bhp Sirron 8L engine which was originally destined for the MV Sodality but it was decided  that the 7L which was built at Newbury for the tug would be used in Sodality and the 8L used in the tug. The tug, the SA Everard, was 124 tons gross, designed to tow 2,400 tons, a load of six 400 ton river barges and was, in its day, the most powerful  tug on the river. The 8 cylinder Sirron engine was the largest built to date at Newbury. Everard's were very conservative with the engines supplied to their fleet and they only built one other 8 cylinder and that was an O type in 1943 for a Ministry of  War Transport tanker, the MV Lady Kathleen.

In addition to the two stroke reversing main propulsion engine, the tug carried two Newbury four stroke engines, one of which at 30bhp, ran a generator/compressor  set, the other a slightly smaller engine of 20bhp, also driving a generator  but with a pump set. The salvage pump, shown on the right, was driven by an electric motor.