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TEASER

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Craft

Fleet No

Built at

 

Hull

Cost

Type

 

TEASER

Aka LANGTON

Aka SEAGULL
                             

 

Ex GJCC ?

Wood 70’ x 7’

 

Carrying nb

Owners

Address

Source for

First Date

Anon

George Langton Bignell

Francis Ashby

Marshall Ashby & Co

 

Nateley Brick & Tile Co

 

Stony Stratford, Bucks

Heston Mills, Hounslow Heath Middlesex

47 Mark Lane London E.C.

Towcester R

Towcester R

Inspection

PoL Gauging

12.12.1893

24.9.1894

1.5.1896

23.6.1898

late 1896 or early 1897

Steamer Registrations

Owner

Place

PH No

As

Date Inspected

Date Registered

As TEASER

Anon

 

Towcester

 

62

 

 

 

12.12.1893

As LANGTON

G L Bignell

 

Towcester

 

62

 

 

 

14.3.1894

As SEAGULL

Francis Ashby

 

Brentford

 

231

Steam narrow not fly

 

1.5.1896

 

5.5.1896

Steamer Gaugings

Owner

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

George Langton Bignell

Francis Ashby

PoL

PoL

12292

7916

Steam monkey boat

71.10 x 6.10 steam canal boat

24.9.1894

16.8.1897

Boiler

 

 

Engine

Compound 2 cylinder 5” & 7” bores (see article on file)

 

Maintenance

 

 

Steamer History

Date

PoL Gauging 12292 cancelled – not navigated in Port of London

Brentford 231 “grain,flour, etc”

Passed Brentford Locks as Brentford 231 towing butty “Waterlily”

Used to work to Unstead Mill (owned by Francis Ashby)nr Godalming

PoL Gauging 7916 noted Transferred to Marshall Ashby & Co Ltd of No 47 Mark Lane, LondonE.C

PoL gauging 7916 noted Cancelled – not navigated

PoL index noted that Marshall Ashby bankrupt and representatives could not be traced

Photo WW Jan 1984 p32  Part engine recovery on Basingstoke Canal

Seagull - From River Wey to Frimley with ballast 12m 20tons at 11½d per ton (Frimley Lock ledger)

Photo WW Aug 1985 p24  Hull recovery on Basingstoke Canal

Seen at Up Nately in Mr Thomas’s garden by AB

Engine at Gloucester with plate “G L Bignell, Engineer and Boilermaker, Stoney Stratford Bucks No 3 Jan’ry 1890”

24.9.1895

 

5.5.1896

 

23.6.1898

23.6.1899

16.10.1902

8.10.1978

29.9.1900

Fate

Sunk on Basingstoke Canal near Nately

Date

nk

 

 

 

 

A plan by Edward Paget-Tomlinson of the theoretical layout of TEASER

Documents on File

Port of London Gauging 12292 Bignell

pc

24.9.1894

Port of London Index fol 481 Bignell    

pc

24.9.1894

Port of London Gauging 7916 Francis Ashby

pc

16.8.1897

Port of London Index Fol 255 Ashby  

pc

23.6.1898

History of Seagull  

pc

nd

Article re engine 

press

nd