Shipbuilder’s scale model of the towing tug Acklam Cross, Aberdeen, Scotland, circa 1933.

Acklam Cross was a steel Diesel-Electric towing tug, it was the first British diesel-electric tug, built in1933.

Launched: 22nd of June 1933.

Built by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen Ironworks. (Yard number: 728).

First owners: Tees Towing Co Ltd – mng Robinson & Crosthwaite, Middlesbrough.

Foundered on the 18th of February 1969 100nm west of Benghazi.

Width: 74 cm.

Depth: 26 cm.

Height: 45cm.

Hall, Russell & Company, was a shipbuilder based in Aberdeen, Scotland. founded the company in 1864 by brothers James and William Hall, Thomas Russell, a Glasgow engineer, and James Cardno Couper to build steam engines and boilers. In 1866 the company built its first iron steamship, the Douglas, for the Hong Kong shipowner Douglas Lapraik.