JÚLIO LUIS

Portuguese wooden tugboat JULIO LUIS, 16,62m7 28gt/ 8kn; 1914 built at Vigo as a seine trawler MANOLITO for local owners, meanwhile she was seized by Portuguese fishing patrol ship due working in Territorial Portuguese waters; 19__ bought by Guilherme Machado & Ca., Lda, Oporto, who preserve the name and employed her in the fishing work; 1937 MANOLITO, Guilherme Machado & Ca., Lda, Oporto, rebuilt her to a tugboat to assist ships at Oporto; 1947 MANOLITO, Guilherme Machado & Ca., Lda, Oporto, who rebuilt her again by the shipyard Tomás Francisco Lapa, V.N. Gaia, river Douro; 1960 JULIO LUIS, Albertino Gomes de Carvalho & Cia., Lda, Oporto, who rebuilt her as diesel tugboat in the shipyard Tomás Francisco Lapa, V.N. Gaia, river Douro; Subsequent data-base untraced.
Seen river Douro, Oporto. 60Â’s.
(Photographer F. Cabral, Oporto).