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PIONEER

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Craft

Fleet No

Built at

Hull

Cost

Type

PIONEER (B)

£300 (BH)

Carrying

Owners

Address

Source for

First Date

Grand Junction Canal Co

1859

Steamer Registrations

Owner

Place

PH No

As

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Steamer Gaugings

Owner

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

Boiler

Vertical flue supplying steam at 75psig

SoC

Engine

Single cylinder 9” bore x 8” stroke (8 nhp) cut off about 50%. Driving a Griffiths 2 bladed propeller with large spherical boss and blades angled forwards.

SoC

Steamer History

First trial carrying steamer, designed by Edwyn Elliott, at City Road Basin Census, City Road Basin, London; 17 tons. William Dawson, master, boatman captain; John Dawson boatman mate; William Bodycot (?) boatman engineer; John Dickson boatman engineer.. Record of trip from City Road Basin to Paddington Stop

SoC Census Chambers

8.4.1861  9.2.1861

Fate

Date

Craft

Built at

Hull

Cost

Type

PIONEER (C)

Iron knees, oak planking, crossbottom built

Tug/carrying

Owners

Address

Source for

First Date

GJCC (London & Staffordshire Carrying Co) SURCCo

Grand Junction Wharf, Ealing Chester (cost £255)

Sale record Watermans Hall Application

10.1876 20.7.1877 27.12.1878

Steamer Registrations

Owner

Place

PH No

As

Date Inspected

Date Registered

SURCCo SURCCo

Chester Chester

56 362

Steamer NB Fly Steam tug carrying not fly

25.1.1879 14.3.1887

15.3.1879 12.7.1887

Steamer Gaugings

Owner

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

Boiler

Vertical flue 7’ x 4’ 6’’ dia, copper water heater, double action force and lift donkey pump;

Engine

12hp inverted 10’’ dia cylinder direct action engine, driving a Griffith’s 2-bladed wrought iron propeller with cast iron and gun metal boss.

Maintenance

Steamer History

Date

Sold for £69.6.0 (GJCC Auction, Lot No 129) as steam tug at Wenlock Basin Listed at Watermans Hall for (L&S Co) 1008/6309 as 10 (ton) steamboat Boiler exploded under test, at Crewe works, killing 2 men (NWMIN 81) Rebuilt or replaced (T Kavanagh BMS Newsletter No 118) Chester 362 “forecabin added” Minute 17528 13.10.1888: “should be discontinued as soon as possible for general use” Minute 18141 Authority given for the old Canal Tugs with the Engines and Boilers to be Sold. (Pioneer?)

11.10.1876 30.7.1877 1884 12.7.1887 13.10.1888 26.3.1890

Fate

Cut up (note on Chester 362)

Date

1910

GJCC Minutes (PRO)

PRO RAIL 830/16

4.12.1860 In consequence of the favourable results of the working of the new Steam Tug and Carrying Boat. Resolved that three new iron boats, three new wooden boats with iron sterns and three new wooden boats with iron sheets at the stern all fitted with steam engines and screws similar to those in the Pioneer be ordered according to the drawings and specifications to be furnished by Mr Burch…Resolved also that there be built two iron tug boats of greater power for the purpose of conveying the trade on the Canal to and from Paddington and Cowley Lock