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Southam

Originally intended GUCCC pairing with motor 171, Southall.

The boat was registered at Rickmansworth while still at Walker's yard, before delivery.

01/01/1948 - passed to BTC (D&IWE), South East Division

01/10/1953 - passed to BTC (BTW)

1962 - sold, converted to pleasure boat and motorised, used as a cruising houseboat

1992 - after being abandoned and sunk at Braunston, was impounded by British Waterways Board and taken to Hillmorton where it sank again

09/1992 - sold to the Wooden Canal Craft Trust (later renamed Wooden Canal Boat Society)

2020 - still owned by WCBS