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WORCESTER

(“The Engineer” 24.1.1896)

Either WORCESTER, BIRMINGHAM or GLOUCESTER

(Cath Turpin)

 

Craft

Built at

 

Hull

Cost

Type

 

WORCESTER
Stothert & Co, Bristol

Iron, 45’x 6’ 9’’x 4’ 6’’

£1150

TUG

Owners

Address

Source for

First Date

Sharpness New Docks and Gloucester & Birmingham Navigation Co

 

 

 

Delivered Oct 1876

Steamer Registrations

Owner

Place

PH No

As

Date Inspected

Date Registered

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Owner

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

 

 

 

 

 

Boiler

Fuelled with 25% Welsh and 75% Staffordshire coal

10.1908

Engine

 

 

Maintenance

 

 

Steamer History

Date

Worked on Gloucester & Berkeley Canal until 1st Jan 1877, when she started work initially  through Tardebigge and Shortwood Tunnels

Decision to replace with motor tugs

1.1.1897

 

9.1911

Fate

Broken up at Gloucester

Date

c 1912