DROITWICH
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DROITWICH at the north end of
Kingsnorton tunnel, with the horses waiting to pick up their tows.
(NWM
54-0754)
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Percy Hawkins, for many years
the engine man on WORCESTER, on DROITWICH
(from “Tunnel Tugs
by Cath Turpin in Issue 7,
Waterways Journal)
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Built originally as Inspection Boat HARRIET in 1877. Used in May 1907 as a test bed for new Kromhout oil engine. This engine transferred to SHARPNESS. HARRIET was shortened and fitted with a steam engine in April 1909 by Abdela & Mitchell and renamed DROITWICH. L T C Rolt recorded that in 1941 “there was a very beautiful steam tug, DROITWICH, built by Abdela & Mitchell of Brimscombe, ….responsible for towage through Wast Hill Tunnel, but eventuially she needed re-tubing and this was never done.” |
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