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Lamprey

30/7/1949       Purchased by BTC (D&IWE), NW Division fleet

1/10/1953       Passed to BTC (BTW)

13/10/1953     Re-Registered Birmingham No 1642 after removal of forecabin

3/10/1958       Re-Registered at Northwich No 80

1/1/1963         Passed to BWB

1964-1967      Hired to Willow Wren Canal Transport Services Ltd (NW Division)

1968-1970      Hired to Anderton Canal Carrying Co

1979              Was moved from Northwich to become part of the Boat Museum collection.

(BW removed all the derelict/sunk hulls from their yard just before the IWA National Rally in August of that year.)

1979               Sold to private ownership, restored as carrying boat with forecabin

2020               Winner of HNBC Hemelryk Award.