Tank number

[stripeyman]

There was a Female presentation tank with the number '4619' could anyone tell me any more information about it please ?

[Gareth Davies]

It was a Mk IV but I know no more than that.

[IPT]

There is no information about 4619 on the Landships site, but you could infer that it was possibly in a range of numbers that were shipped to the Americans from Newbury on 5/11/1918 -   https://sites.google.com/site/landships/home/lists/mkivtanks/world-war-one-british-mark-iv-tank-4601---4700

 

 

[stripeyman]

Thank you both. This particular tank was presented to Goole on the river Humber

[IPT]

There's a small pictures of it here, but no markings are discernible.  Apparently, it was in a children's park. 

 

You can have some sympathy with them wanting rid of it by 1923.

 

 

 

 

[stripeyman]

That is in Hook road looking East.

[IPT]

So it is.

[Sidearm]

It was manufactured by the Coventry Ordnance Works, Scotstoun, Glasgow. No service history is known.

 

Gwyn

[Sidearm]

The tank wasn't scrapped in 1923.  Goole Urban District Council decided in August 1923 to scrap the tank but the decision was rescinded in Sept, partly due to public opposition and partly because the only offer received was for £20.  It was eventually sold to Mr W. Coward for £52 10s. When tank was being cut up the oxy-acetylene cutter ignited petrol in the tank's petrol tank causing it to explode blowing out "half inch armour plating".

 

I have a recollection, though it isn't in my notes, that one night a ship on the Humber broke lose from its mooring and it was eventually tethered to the tank before the anchor could be replaced.

 

Gwyn