TULA tender on board ERNEST SHACKLETON

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Thanks to Mr. Peter Crichton who supplied my with the URL http://www.alnmaritec.co.uk/boats/all_boats01.html I got the following information on the tender TULA.

The stamp was designed after a photo on http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/images/in_p ... island.php

It shows the TULA (landing craft) being loaded alongside from ERNEST SHACKLETON during a relief at Bird Island, not a date given.
She was named after the ship TULA used by John Biscoe during his British Expedition of 1830-1833, who circumnavigated the Antarctic continent.

She is built by Alnmaritec Ltd. at Alnwick, Northumberland U.K. as a landing craft for logistic supply.
What year built can not find.
Displacement 10 ton. Payload 11 ton, dim. 11.40 x 4.0M.
Two Cummins diesels 130 bhp and 2 Hamilton 273 water jets, speed 9 knots.

Carried on deck on board the ERNEST SHACKLETON, and used as a tender in the Antarctic between the ship and shore.

British Antarctic Territory 2000 sg 33p sg?, scott?

Source: from the all mentioned URL’s