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Wye

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

Built Thames Launch Works Ltd, Twickenham

11/1958 Delivered to British Transport Waterways, SE Division Carrying Fleet

29/1/1959 Registered Rickmansworth No 205

1/1/1962 Transferred to British Waterways Board

Mid 1960s Used at Sutton Stop as houseboat for former boatmen

9/1966 Transferred to maintenance fleet, Gloucester

1993 Transferred to National Waterways Museum, Gloucester, and restored as floating museum exhibit

2017 Transferred to Ellesmere Port storage site at Rossfield Road

 

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