CRETEHAWSER Traditional Geocache
broadsword: OK thanks for the heads up i think its time for me to disable it maybe someone can try another hide
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Concrete tug 'Cretehauser' was built in 1919, gutted in 1935 for use as an emergency breakwater and beached on the River Wear in 1942.
Cretehawser was launched at Southwick in March 1919, 262 tons, 720 horsepower. One of twelve powerful, single screw ferro-concrete vessels ordered by the Admiralty in 1918 due to a steel shortage. Cretehawser was the first to be built in Sunderland by Wear Concrete Building Company Limited, a subsidiary of Swan Hunter.
It was badly damaged during a World War Two air raid and subsequently towed upriver for safety. Its current position was as far as it would go before it sank. It is now a useful roost for riverside birds.
Of the other eleven only two remain, one is a hulk in the River Moy, Ballina, Eire. The other was converted to part of the marine facilities at Carlingford in Eire. The rest were either wrecked or broken up.
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