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POWERFUL

POWERFUL with Odell’s wide boat MILDRED at the western end of Maida Hill Tunnel in 1905

(Copyright City of London, London Metropolitan Archives. Ref: 169071)

 

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Craft

Fleet No

Built at

Hull

Cost

Type

POWERFUL

 

 

 

 

STEAM TUG

Owners

Address

Source for

First Date

Odell & Co

Thomas Clayton

 

Paddington  Wharf

Registration

Registration

9.1900

17.2.1914

Steamer Registrations

Owner

Place

PH No

As

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Odell & Co

Thomas Clayton

Uxbridge

Paddington

300

235

Narrow steam tug

Narrow steam tug

 

c 9.1900

17.2.1914

Steamer Gaugings

Owner

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

 

 

 

 

 

Boiler

 

 

Engine

 

 

Steamer History

 

 

 

Census taken at Irongate Wharf, Paddington, shows Edward Parrott (27),  Alfred Clarke (60) and Job Longden (33) living on board

Census taken at Paddington.  Steerer James Gannon and friend Edward King (aged 10) on board

Inspected at Paddington (235) Capt Mr Bland

Sold

 

31.3.1901

 

2.4.1911

1.8.1933

1941

Fate

 

Date

 

 

Note re Odell & Co Ltd (supplied by Alan Faulkner)

In 1897 Thomas Clayton (1857-1927) took over the barge business operated by Henry Odell.  Initially the business was continued under the name of Odell & Co Ltd from 19 Irongate Wharf, Paddington but the directors’ meetings were held in Birmingham.  About 1911 the company’s name was changed to Thomas Clayton (Paddington) Ltd and for many years it was run by Alfred Clayton (1875 – 1969), the fourth son of Thomas’s eldest brother William John Clayton (1855-1920), from an office in Paddington.  The Grand Union Canal Co purchased the concern on 1st April 1936 at which time the two main directors, Alfred Clayton and Forrester Clayton (1878-1942), resigned.