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PRINCESS

PRINCESS, in John Dickenson livery, waiting to enter Batchworth Lock with butty May.

(Undated postcard, Dennis Ashby collection)

PRINCESS, in John Dickinson livery, leaving Apsley South End with a butty, prior to 1924

(Alan Faulkner collection)

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Craft

Fleet No

Built at

 

Hull

Cost

Owner

Launch Date

PRINCESS (a)

169

Fazeley Street

Mild steel

 

Fellows Morton & Co

1888

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

Wolverhampton (for FM & Co)

616

 

 

c3.4.1888

Steamer Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

Port of London

9439

 

14.9.1894

Hull Composition

Mild steel

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Boiler

Type

Tubes

PSI

Cost

 

Cochrane

34 x 2Ό’’

100 lbs

 

 

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Engine

Haines

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Propeller Shaft

9’ 4Ύ’’   (8’ 4½’’ – 10Ό’’ – 2’’ )

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Steamer History

Date

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

20.5.1890

Fate

Rebuilt at Saltley Dock

Date

6.1896

 

 

 

 

Craft

Fleet No

ReBuilt at

 

New Hull

Cost

Owner

Launch Date

PRINCESS (b)

169

Saltley Dock

Iron Composite

£500

FMC

6.1896

Steamer Registrations

Place

PH Number

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham

Birmingham (for John Dickinson & Co Ltd)

959

959 ( Folio 989a)

Thomas Wenlock

13.8.1896

25.9.1897

12.10.1896

1.10.1897

Steamer Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

 

 

 

 

Hull Composition

Bottom Elm, kelson pitch pine, sides iron.  Stowage 38’ 10’’ deck beam 5’ 5’’

Maintenance

Date

New iron cabin sides, new lower body guards.

10.1904

Boiler

Type

Tubes

PSI

Cost

 

Cochranes

34 x 2Ό’’

100 lbs

 

 

Maintenance

Date

Mattress to boiler (asbestos (U.A.C)), retubed; tubes in horizontal rows, stay boss 1½’’ (lighter than usual) with nuts on […….] these and the small stays which are only 1’’

2.1907

Engine

FMC Haines

Maintenance

Date

 

 

 

Propeller Shaft

9’ 4Ύ’’   (8’ 4½’’ – 10Ό’’ – 2’’ )

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Steamer History

Date

Canal boat report Apsley to Paddington

Millner/FMC  “Collision with tug”

12.8.1899

1.9.1896

Conversion to motor as PILOT             

At

Cost

Engine

Cost

Date

Uxbridge 

£320

15 hp Bolinder Model NE    (Pollock 1117)

£190

31.12.1924

Motor Registrations

Place

PH No

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham

1474

Edward Powell

27.1.1925

20.2.1925

Motor Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

GJC

12787

 

14.9.1938

Maintenance

Docked at Saltley

Docked at Saltley

10 1936

10.1939

Motor History

Date

 

 

Fate

Damaged by enemy action. Given to E Thomas, Walsall

Date

7.1941

 

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