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MONARCH

MONARCH and butty Romford on the Trent and Mersey Canal near Stenson in 1940

(F Rogers)

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Craft

Fleet No

Built at

Hull

Cost

Owner

Launch Date

MONARCH

156

Saltley Dock

Iron Composite

£600

FMC

4 1908

Steamer Registrations

Place

PH Number

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham

1201

Edward Griffiths

25.4.1908

22.5.1908

Steamer Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

GJC

11813

4.7.1911

Hull Composition

Maintenance

Date

Funnel double jointed at bottom

Boiler

Type

Tubes

PSI

Cost

J Thompson

44 x 2¼’’ + 10 stay tubes

140 lbs

£105

Maintenance

Date

Asbestos mattress ex Lawson

Engine

FMC Haines

Maintenance

Date

Propeller Shaft

7’ 7’’ ( 6’ 6½’’ – 10½’’ – 2’’ )

Maintenance

Date

Steamer History

Date

Coke capacity of bunker 1 ton only. Carries 5 bags in hold for Leicester – Nottingham journeys

Conversion to motor

At

Cost

Engine

Cost

Date

Saltley Dock

£326

15hp Bolinder Model NE (Pollock 1116)

6.1.1925

Motor Registrations

Place

PH No

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham CIJ (Fly as Ord)

Note 334

15.8.1934

Motor Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

BCN GJC

1412 12183

19.7.1928 11.12.1929

Maintenance

Docked at Saltley Docked at Saltley Docked at Uxbridge

11.1936 6.1940 2.1944

Motor History

Date

TWM/Cherry “ left Gayton with Mr Hatcher’s trunk” Captain Huff (sic) Contrary to the rumour, Monarch did not go to Dunkirk! (Source – secretary of the Little Ships Society)

29.8.1927

Fate

Sold to F J Gopsill, Walsall

Date

10.1946

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