This week's photo is of tug called the Chieftain. Built by Scotts of Bowling in 1930 for Steel & Bennie Ltd a lighterage firm. A history of the firm can be found here.
Specification details about the tug are available on the Clydebuilt database here.
The Ballast Trust is a charitable foundation established in 1988 that provides a rescue, sorting and cataloguing service for business archives with an emphasis on technical records such as shipbuilding, railway and engineering plans, drawings and photographs.
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