Fearless (tugboat)


Fearless is a tugboat that is located in Birkenhead, South Australia, Australia.
She was built in Midland, Ontario, Canada in 1945 as the Rockwing, then renamed Tapline 2 and Abqaiq 3. She received the name Fearless in 1954.
Fearless was put up for sale in 1972 in Brisbane, Australia and bought by Keith LeLeu for $1. He sailed her to Port Adelaide in with a volunteer crew, taking nine days. Four months later LeLeu sold the ship, with other museum materials, to the National Trust of South Australia, again for $1. The collection was subsequently transferred to the History Trust of South Australia with the Fearless being transferred at a later date to a developer called Southern Sea Eagles.
In 2017, Fearless was one of the ships considered in a study funded by Renewal SA about "a strategy for berthing or locating historic ships and vessels within the inner harbour of Port Adelaide."