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Welded all steel butty boat 71’6” x 7’0”

Built EC Jones & Son (Brentford) Ltd

11/1961 Delivered to British Transport Waterways, SE Division Carrying Fleet

5/12/1961 Registered Rickmansworth No 223

1/1/1962 Transferred to British Waterways Board

1970 Leased to Birmingham & Midland Canal Carrying Co Ltd

1977 Converted to mud hopper

2008 Leased, later sold, to Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Canal Trust (HGCT) which has kindly supplied the photographs below.

 

For photo information, please click on the i, top left.