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)
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