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Minute 20052 Canal
Tug Avoca was worn out and that it was necessary for her to be replaced. A
new boat was ordered to be put in hand, cost £160, and Messrs Wilkinsons
tender for engines and boiler, £398 was ordered to be accepted
Minute 20197 Trials of the new replacement “Leader”
£398 boiler and
engine. Only used on the Wirral
length.
Later maintenance
craft
Photographed at Grub
Street clayhole (NWMIN 81) (WW 1/1983 p63)
Minute 23960: The
hull of the tug Leader having been condemned, it was reported that her
boiler, No 34, had been taken out and put into stock
Minute 25519: Tug
Leader on condemned list had been dismantled and the hull sold to B. D.
Bate of Chester
for £25
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