PIETRO MICCA, a intense over a century aged history
Over a century of life
- and what a century!
The intense history of the over a century aged sea-going tugboat with
to her credit.
The Dilwara came to the "Kingdom of Italy" in 1903, first to Genoa and then in 1905 to Naples, where she was inscribed in the Coastal Sector Register with the name of Pietro Micca and given a number worthy of note - 33.
Her main tasks were as a harbour tug, towing pontoons of the construction of wharves and quays for many Mediterranean ports, but she was also fitted out as a mine-sweeper for use in periods "of necessity". After the "Fall of the Berlin Wall" the american flot has leaved the Port of Naples and she has risked the demolition.
The Pietro Micca has been able to survive until today in spite of competition from far more modern and efficient tugs, by selling steam to American ships stationed in the Bay of Naples! During maintenance work on the boilers of these vessels, something had to keep all their other services active: the galleys, the engine room and all ancillary systems such as pumps, central heating, etc... And what could supply their requirements - and provide itself with much-needed employment - better than a STEAMER!
The "Associazione Amici delle Navi a Vapore G. L. Spinelli" bought the ship on the initiative of its President, Pierpaolo Giua, who also directed the faithful refurbishing of the tug carried out at the TECNOMAR shipyard in Fiumicino (ROME), where she is currently moored.
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