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HASTY

It is possible that there were three Hastys. One may have been built late 1876 but there is no Waterman’s Hall entry for a Hasty

Millner noted that a Hasty was built 1896 and lasted until 1922. The photographs show at least three different designs!

HASTY (a) entering the north end of Blisworth Tunnel. Although this image is said to be dated between 1930 and 1936, It shows HASTY with the funnel in the mid-cabin position of the 1913 photograph shown on the next page. Photo by W A Alexander

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Craft

Fleet No

Built at

Hull

Cost

Type

HASTY (a)

 

Morgan, Uxbridge 

Wood 48’ x 6’ 10 x 4’

 

Tunnel Tug

Owners

Address

Source for

First Date

Grand Junction Canal Co

 

 

 

Steamer Registrations

Owner

Place

PH No

As

Date Inspected

Date Registered

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steamer Gaugings

Owner

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

 

 

 

 

 

Boiler

Davey Paxman  120 psi with 2 Empire loaded safety v/v’s, 2 sets water gauges, 1 Bourdon pressure gauge, Stayed for high pressure

Boiler inspection due

A Flack

 

Millner L

1896

 

7.11.1918

Engine

V single A H Beasley & Sons Uxbridge

 BH

 1896

Steamer History

Putting new iron guards on £6. 6. 2.

Repairs

Repairs by W Nurser

 

 

Photo exists of engine, boat name not mentioned but AB states Hasty

 

 

BH

BH

BH

 

 

 

1877

6.1879

3.1880 also 3.1882, 9.1884, 5.1885, 8.1890

 

Fate

Scrapped

Date

1922

 

Craft

Fleet No

Built at

Hull

Cost

Type

 

HASTY (b)

 

Bushell Bros  1923

Wood  49’ x 6’11’’

x 4’5’’

£420 or £500

Tunnel Tug

 

Owners

Address

Source for

First Date

 

Grand Junction Canal Co

 

 

 

 

Steamer Registrations

 

Owner

Place

PH No

As

Date Inspected

Date Registered

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steamer Gaugings

 

Owner

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boiler

Locomotive type boiler by Davey Paxman of Colchester

SoC

 

 

Engine

Beasley 2 cylinder compound condensing  HP cylinder 5’’ dia LP Cylinder 10’’ with 10’’ stroke.  Stevenson Link motion. Vaqcuum Pump driven by links from crosshead

SoC and A Flack

 

 

Steamer History

Tug in Braunston Tunnel

Ceased operations (through the tunnels)

Hasty (b) and De Salis may have been muddled. Hasty was sunk in Sabey’s Dock as a tug hull with no cabin (Joe Mercer, lockkeeper at Cowley Lock 1962).

But John James bought a Hasty to run as a passenger boat

Miss D Hayes bought as Steam Tug ex GJ Co Blisworth Tunnel. Moved to Bulbourne intact c1942/43

(AEB) Sunk on Wendover Arm less machinery.  Purchased by J James 1954; converted to passenger carrying by L B Faulkner with RN diesel engine (now removed) Hull sold to Miss Hayes

IWA Rally Little Venice seen

“Not long before the War the tug Hasty was burnt out. It was rotten weather and there were not many boats about. The crew were in the pub (The Boat Inn ) one dinner time (the tug had to wind by the pub above the top lock). They had left a hurricane lamp alight in the engine room and the wash from a passing boat knocked it over.  The crew on that shift got the sack. It was an iron boat and I think the hull was later sold to be a pleasure boat” (Extract from article in NarrowBoat, Autumn 2009 by John Pyper of Reg Fuller’s memories)

 

Hadlow

Ex BH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BH

 

30.9.1936

6.11.1962

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18.8.1963

 

 

 

Fate

 

 

 

 

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