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EMPRESS

EMPRESS at Berkhamsted, with butty Wales

(David McDougall)

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Craft

Fleet No

Built at

Hull

Cost

Owner

Launch Date

EMPRESS (a)

168

Fazeley Street

Steel

 

Fellows Morton & Co

1887

Pre FMC History

Date

Purchased from Fellows Morton & Co for £600

3.7.1889 (1.1.1889)

Steamer Registrations

Place

PH Number

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham (for FM & Co)

Birmingham (for FMC)

614

835

Job Neale

Job Neale

2.8.1887

23.12.1892

6.10.1887

13.1.1893

Steamer Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

Port of London

9437

13t 6cwt

14.9.1894

Hull Composition

Mild Steel

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Boiler

Type

Tubes

PSI

Cost

 

Cochrane

34 x 2¼’’

100 lbs

 

 

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Engine

 Haines 1887

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Propeller Shaft

 

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Steamer History

Date

Listed at Waterman’s Hall No 1396 (15 ton) as Steam Carrying Tug

TWM (74) “Jumps turns” – captain Crockett

Millner/King re wasting water

20.5.1890

3.8.1895

14.7.1896

Fate

Rebuilt at Saltley (see Empress (b))

Date

5.1898

 

 

 

 

Craft

Fleet No

ReBuilt at

New Hull

Cost

Owner

Launch Date

EMPRESS (b)

168

Saltley Dock

Iron composite

£500

FMC

May 1898

Steamer Registrations

Place

PH Number

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham

1009

W Wilkins

21.6.1898

16.7.1898

Steamer Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

GJC

11687

 

27.2.1911

Hull Composition

 

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Boiler

Type

Tubes

PSI

Cost

 

Cochrane

34 x 2¼’’

100 lbs

 

 

Maintenance

Date

Retubed

Back end of flue tube cracked and patched, new bridge plate

Retubed

Boiler retubed (22)

Boiler furnace tube bad through low water, not worth repairing

8.1900

12.1902

4.1903

7.1907

1919

Engine

 Haines 1887

Maintenance

Date

New stall (?) advance 3/8’’

New crankshaft

5.1898

5.1899

Propeller Shaft

9’ 3’’

Maintenance

Date

Shaft out, stern tube adjusted and fixed, new key to shaft

New shaft 9’ 3’’

3.1904

7.1907

Steamer History

Date

Millner/FMC re excessive speed

12.9.1899

Conversion to motor as ENVOY          

At

Cost

Engine

Cost

Date

  Saltley

£600

15hp Bolinder Model E  (see notes ¹ & ² below)  

(Pollock 648)

£237.8.10

10.1919

Motor Registrations

Place

PH No

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham

Birmingham

1384

1542

M Gould

Alfred Aldridge

9.12.1919

31.5.1932

19.12.1919

20.6.1932

Motor Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

BCN

GJC

GJC

GJC

GJC

GJC

GJC

GJC

GJC

GJC

103

12045

12045

12045

12045

12045

12045

12045

12045

12045

 

 

Deduct 7 cwt

Deduct 3 cwt

Deduct 2 cwt

Add 5 cwt

Deduct 7 cwt

Add 2 cwt

Deduct 2 cwt

Add 6 cwt

3.9.1921

10.4.1922

16.4.1924

26.7.1927

24.4.1929

24.11.1930

11.7.1931

13.3.1938

22.5.1946

17.7.1946

Maintenance

¹Model E Bolinder purchased second-hand from Evans & Co, cost £225

²Reboring cylinder and fitting pistons &c, £12.8.10; finished and put into commission

Converted to 15hp Bolinder Model BM at Saltley

Docked Saltley

Docked Saltley

Docked Uxbridge

20.4.1920

4.1920

11.1930

8.1936

9.1939

11.1942

Motor History

Date

BM15 engine taken out at Saltley prior to sale.  Put in DRAGON

4.1948

Fate

Hull sold to E Thomas, Walsall

Date

2.1948

 

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