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DAGMAR

Craft

Built

Built at

Hull

Cost

Type

DAGMAR

1858

Either Lawrence & Co, Liverpool or Earle & Co Hull

Iron 60’long 8’beam 5’deep

STEAM TUG

Owners

Source for

First Date

Leeds & Liverpool Canal Steam Tug Co Lancaster Canal Co Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Co Richard Abel & Co

For either £300 or £325 Bought either Bought for £85

Application

1858 28 6. 1860 1864 or 1866 27.12.1878 10. 1917

Steamer Registrations

Owner

Place

PH No

As

Date Inspected

Date Registered

SURCCo

Chester

12

Steamer narrowboat For towing other boats

2.1.1879

15.3.1879

Steamer Gaugings

Owner

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

Boiler

Cylindrical tubular

Engine

12hp horizontal geared high pressure driving Joseph Burch’s patent screw propeller (the blades of which can be removed if broken in a few minutes)

Steamer History

Used as shuttle between Liverpool and Appley New boilers be obtained from Crewe (Min 9827) Working behind ice boat EP to Chester (Waterways Journal Vol 5 p47) Minute 24965 Disposal of 3 canal tugs…Authority was given for the disposal, if suitable offers can be obtained of the Canal Tugs Dagmar, Dreadnought and Luna, which are not now required in connection with the working of the traffic between Chester and Ellesmere Port Minute 25638 Sale of Canal Tugs. Reported that the tugs Dagmar and Dreadnought had been sold to Messrs R Abels and Sons, for the sum of £85 each. See letter ex T Kavanagh for more detail

1858-1860 26.11.1873 2.1895 7.10.1917 20.2.1918

Fate

Sold (reg)

Date

1925

Documents on file

Letter from T Kavanagh ts 14.11.2001