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DREADNOUGHT

Craft

Built

Built at

Hull

Cost

Type

DREADNOUGHT

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

 

£85

 

 

 

 

Application

1858

 

28 6. 1858

1864 or 1866

27.12.1878

10. 1917

Steamer Registrations

Owner

Place

PH No

As

Date Inspected

Date Registered

SURCCo

Chester

5

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)

Towing Minnie from Ellesmere Port to Chester. Towline cut by John Woods.  Fined 20/- (Waterways Journal Vol 5 p47)

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

4.1894

 

2.1895

17.10.1917

 

 

 

20.2.1918

Fate

Sold (reg)

 

Date

1925

 

Documents on file

 

Letter from T Kavanagh (filed under Dagmar)                                                                ts             14.11.2001