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Post-FMC History
Date Action   Name Source
5.1893 To Harold and Edgar Humphrey (Abingdon Carriers) for £575 Humphrey DUCHESS
16.6.1893 Reregistered at Birmingham 860 by H & E Humphrey Humphrey DUCHESS Registration
21.6.1893 Waterman's Hall records as "Harold & Edgar Humfrey of Shippon, near Abingdon, Berks DUCHESS 20 steam monkey boat Humfrey DUCHESS Ref:1255/6309/4/68
27.6.1894 Gauged at PoL as Steam Monkey Boat  No 8314 70.10 x 6.8 12..16 tonnage by measurement 21..8 carrying capacity. Humfrey DUCHESS Ref PoL gauging 8314
8.8.1898 Transferred to Edgar Humfrey Humfrey DUCHESS Ref PoL gauging 8314
6.8.1900 Humfrey Registration cancelled boat sold to Barnett & Sons as steam monkey boat 12¾ tons measurement 21½ tons burthen Barnett DUCHESS Ref PoL Index Fol 307
12.10.1904 Transferred to Mary Elizabeth Wheeler of St Helena Wharf, Richmond (trading as W J Wheeler) Wheeler DUCHESS Ref PoL gauging 8314
6.3.1905 PoL Gauging Cancelled - sold J Thorneycroft Limited & not navigated Thorneycroft DUCHESS Ref PoL gauging 8314
17.5.1905 Registered at PoL to John I Thorneycroft & Co Ltd Church Wharf Chiswick Middlesex (John Maughfling - Secretary) as a Gas motor barge Craft No 10426 Thorneycroft DUCHESS Fol 386 PoL Index
3.1.1906 Left Brentford, fitted with 35hp Thorneycroft Suction Gas Engine, on journey to Manchester and back. Journey took nearly 7 weeks.2 blades broken off propeller. Thorneycroft DUCHESS Articles Motor Boat 12.4.1906
5.1906 PoL Gauging registration cancelled - left the Port Thorneycroft DUCHESS
26.11.1907 Reregistered at Coventry No 343 as a steamer for John Griffiths of Bedworth renamed ANT "a fly boat worked by shifts". "Reregistration necessary owing to structural alterations and change of owner. J Griffiths ANT
20.9.1910 "This boat is not now used as a dwelling but as an open boat" J Griffiths Cov 343 registration

Sightings

Ref Date Source Captain Notes
DUCHESS 1889 Launched Fazeley St
2.3.1889 Inspected
Bm 678 12.3.1889 Reg for Fellows, Morton & Co
20.5.1890 WH Reg as "Duchess 15" steam carrying tug
4.1891 Census Andrew Humphries at Hatton
4.1891 Census Frank Grandos Driver Age 43 born Warwicks
4.1891 Census Frederick Grandos Crew Age 20 born Warwicks
26.1.1893 Inspected
Bm 841 16.2.1893 Reg Andrew Humphries
5.1893 Sold to Harold & Edgar Humphrey
Bm 860 16.6.1893 Reg for Humphrey
WH 9436 14.9.1894 Gauged
1255 8.8.1898 PoL Index Canal barge 8314
1255 6.8.1900 PoL Index To Barnett & Sons
Bm 1166 26.1.1906 Reg For Thorneycroft
ANT Cov 343 26.11.1907 Reg For Griffiths
Cov 343 20 9 1910 Converted to open boat by