Yelta
tug · Australia
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- Yelta
- IMO number
- 5395539
- MMSI
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- Call sign
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- Flag
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Vessel type
- tug
- Gross tonnage
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- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- —
- Beam
- —
- Year built
- 1949
- Builder
- —
- Registered owner
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- Operator
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Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About Yelta
Yelta is a steam tug which operated in the Australian state of South Australia from 1949 to 1976 within both the Port River and the waters of Gulf St Vincent immediately adjoining the river's mouth. After being laid up for about nine years, she was purchased in 1985 by the Government of South Australia for addition to the collection of the South Australian Maritime Museum as a museum ship. As of 1985, she was considered to be the only remaining steam-powered tug operating within Australian waters. Yelta was built at the Cockatoo Island Dockyard in Sydney, during 1948 by the Cockatoo Docks & Engineering Company for Ritch & Smith of Port Adelaide, South Australia. After an 11-day voyage from Sydney, Yelta arrived in Port Adelaide on 22 February 1949. Until her retirement in 1976, she assisted vessels to and from docks and other facilities within the Port River.
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Yelta now?
- Yelta has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is Yelta?
- Yelta is a tug sailing under the flag of Australia, built in 1949.
- Has Yelta been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for Yelta appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).