Craft

Built

Built at

Hull

Cost

Type

DAGMAR

1858

Either Lawrence & Co, Liverpool or Earle & Co Hull

Iron   60’long  8’beam 5’deep

STEAM TUG

Owners

Source for

First Date

Leeds & Liverpool Canal Steam Tug Co

Lancaster Canal Co

Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Co

Richard Abel & Co

For either £300 or £325

Bought either

Bought for  £85

Application

1858

28 6. 1860

1864 or 1866

27.12.1878

10. 1917

Steamer Registrations

Owner

Place

PH No

As

Date Inspected

Date Registered

SURCCo

Chester

12

Steamer narrowboat For towing other boats

2.1.1879

15.3.1879

Steamer Gaugings

Owner

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

Boiler

Cylindrical tubular

Engine

12hp horizontal geared high pressure driving Joseph Burch’s patent screw propeller (the blades of which can be removed if broken in a few minutes)

Steamer History

 Used as shuttle between Liverpool and Appley

New boilers be obtained from Crewe (Min 9827)

Working behind ice boat EP to Chester (Waterways Journal Vol 5 p47)

Minute 24965 Disposal of  3 canal tugs…Authority was given for the disposal, if suitable offers can be obtained of the Canal Tugs Dagmar, Dreadnought and Luna, which are not now required in connection with the working of the traffic between Chester and Ellesmere Port

Minute 25638 Sale of Canal Tugs. Reported that the tugs Dagmar and Dreadnought had been sold to Messrs R Abels and Sons, for the sum of £85 each.

See letter ex T Kavanagh for more detail

1858-1860

26.11.1873

2.1895

7.10.1917

20.2.1918

Fate

Sold (reg)

Date

1925