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VICEROY

VICEROY in the top lock at Stoke Bruerne with butty Dee.  The captain is Bill Knibbs

(Hugh McKnight)

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Craft

Fleet No

Built at

 

Hull

Cost

Owner

Launch Date

VICEROY

196

Saltley

Iron Composite

£600

FMC

12.1909

Steamer Registrations

Place

PH Number

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham

1214

Edward  Wenlock

27.10.1909

3.12.1909

Steamer Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

GJC

11695

 

3.4.1911

Hull Composition

 

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Boiler

Type

Tubes

PSI

Cost

 

Ruston Proctor & Co Ltd

48 tubes 1¾’’ out – 4 stays each side & 2 bar stays. Butt joint on shell

130 lbs

 

 

Maintenance

Date

Smoke box with oval top opening for funnel 15 x 9 made by R. Green

 

Engine

A H Beasley & Sons, Uxbridge. Weight 15cwt.3.14.  CSC 3½’’ x 7’’ x 8’’  Stroke. 200 rpm   £130

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Propeller Shaft

 

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Steamer History

Date

Millner letter “left for Blisworth”

Millner letter “rams lock 20 at Stoke….”

Last steamer to load from City Road Basin with W Knibbs as captain

?

10.3.1914

1927

Conversion to motor                

At

Cost

Engine

Cost

Date

  Uxbridge

 

15 hp Bolinder Model BM    (Pollock 1126)

 

6.12.1927

Motor Registrations

Place

PH No

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham

1544

John Meredith

7.2.1933

24.2.1933

Motor Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

BCN

1394

 

8.5.1928

Maintenance

Docked at Saltley

Docked at Saltley

Docked at Uxbridge

2.1936

2.1939

5.1942

Motor History

Date

BM15 engine taken out at Saltley prior to sale.  Put in EAGLE

10.1948

Fate

Hull sold to E. Thomas, Walsall

Date

8.1948

 

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