JUBILEE
Craft
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JUBILEE
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Wood
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Owners
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Address
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Matthew (J.T.) Canvin |
Deanshanger Stony Stratford also at Leckhamsted, Bucks |
Towcester R |
12.1.1888 |
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Steamer Registrations
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Matthew Canvin |
Towcester |
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12 1 1888 |
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Steamer Gaugings
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Boiler
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Engine
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Gear drive
engine 120 rpm, prop 360 (BH) |
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Maintenance
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Steamer History
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Inspected Leicester as Towcester 4 Matthew Canvin running to Inspected Daventry as Towcester 12 M Canvin with LILLEY (Towcester 6) Inspected Inspected Daventry as Towcester 12 M Canvin 4th knee rescued from wreck by AEB and given to Neil Louden of MK Museum, now lost. Thought worked single handed and pushed a butty (AEB) TWM (355-7) sunk by Marquis in Braunston Tunnel Letter ex toll clerk at Stretton Stop “ On Wednesday night Canvin’s steamer & boat passed here from Wyken” |
19.3.1891 14.4.1891 15.8.1891 12.8.1892 5.7.1899 20.4.1901 |
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Fate
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Documents on file
Letter Millner/Thomas re sinking pc 5.7.1899
Letter Millner re collision pc 7.7.1899
Millner Letters
5.7.1899 At 8.35 pm on Monday 3rd
July, I received a wire from Danks stating that M Canvin’s steamer JUBILEE had
sunk in
Braunston Tunnel and stopped the traffic at 6 pm. After sending the men and stanking material
forward from this yard, I rode over to Braunston and found Messrs Fellows
Morton & Clayton’s steamer MARQUIS Captain T
Wenlock and butty boat loaded with starch and sundries for Birmingham had run
into that Canvin’s Steamer JUBILEE and butty
boat Captain T Canvin loaded with 23 and 30¼ tons of Wyken Coal for
Leckhampton, between the 13 & 1400 yards in the tunnel. The JUBILEE
lay across the tunnel with the bow on the offside and the stern on the towpath
side and he was struck an inch on the inside of the stempost with the guard
iron almost knocked off. The MARQUIS then appeared to have run up on her foredeck
and pressed her under. The tunnel was
thick and both steamers look to have been on their wrong sides.
Wenlock states
that he sounded the whistle several times but heard no reply. The MARQUIS
followed the same owner’s SULTAN close behind from
hear and was probably running hard at the time of the collision.
The stank was
driven at Bridge No 6 Wilton and the water in the tunnel (and summit for a
distanceof 1½ miles 275 yards was run off to a depth of 2’ 8” before the JUBILEE could be floated after lightening her cargo 6
tons and pumping all the water out. She
rose at 2 pm, but it was 7 pm before the summit could be raised sufficiently to
allow boats to move.
108 lockfuls of water were required
from the reservoir to make up the deficiency.
In my opinion the JUBILEE
is not a safe steamer to navigate the tunnels without sidecloths and she ought
not to be allowed to carry such heavy loading.
Also considering we may always expect to have
boats sunk in the tunnels, proper stop grooves should be placed in Welton
Bridge wing walls as soon as possible to prevent future delays to traffic and
considerable loss of water.
Millner/Thomas
7.7.1899 After Canvin’s steamer JUBILEE had been raised in Braunston Tunnel, she got
up steam and worked through the tunnel between 7 and 8 pm and was run into by
our tug HASTY when she was towing the fleet of
boats that had been in the stoppage. The tunnel was smoky at the time and the JUBILEE did not sound the whistle – if she had been on
her wrong side she would probably have been sunk a second time.
I have to report
Messrs Fellows’ boat HOCKLEY Captain I Clarke loaded with explosives for
entering Braunston tunnel north end at 8.45 am on the 3.7.1899 without first
sending the flagman over to warn steamers, after the tug Captain had warned
him.. Millner/Thomas