Tug "Tai Koo" II

History
1937. Built by Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co, for themselves as an Ocean-going Salvage vessel.

Interesting feature of the engines was that there were separate steam and exhaust piston valves on the L.P. cylinder operated by one set of valve gear through a crosshead, and the arrangement of the direct acting steam-hydraulic reverse gear, designed to set the valve gear to any required H.P. cut-off, chosen from the graduated index plate at the control lever.

Sept 12th.1941. While carrying out salvage operations for the U.K. government at the Red Sea port of Massawa, was lost when it struck a mine. Position 16.45 N / 40.05 E