Cikaran

Cikaran is a Moor class mooring and salvage tug. Bow, McLachlan and Company of Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland built her for the Royal Navy, who commissioned her as HMDYC Moorstone in 1919. In 1948 she was decommissioned and in 1951 she was sold to civilian owners in Turkey who renamed her Kurtaran. In 1962 she was sold again and her new owners named her Cikaran. She was still in service in 2003.