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Post-FMC History

 

Date

 

 

 

Action

 

 

 

Owner

 

 

 

Name

 

 

 

Source

 

 

11.1925

 

 

To Charles Court

 

 

C Court

 

 

EARL

 

 

 

4.12.1925

 

Regauged as BCN 1481.  Last steamer to trade

 

C Court

 

EARL

 

 

 

5.1.1928

 

Add 14 cwt to GJ Gauging Sheet 11807

 

C Court

 

EARL

 

GS

 

22.6.1928

 

Add 15 cwt to GJ Gauging Sheet 11807 with comment "False bottom out".

 

 

C Court

 

EARL

 

GS

 

 

 

May have been renamed ROYAL see article WW June 1980

 

 

 

 

 

 

C Boucher

 

5.1930

 

Sank at Stretton Stop, engine removed, hull towed to Brinklow Arm and abandoned. Stern gear and propeller

is at Stoke Bruerne

 

 

 

 

EARL

 

 

 

6.2000

 

Photographed at Brinklow

 

 

 

EARL

 

RT

 

 

Sightings

 

Ref

 

Date

 

Source

Captain

Crew

Butty

Notes

 

 

EARL

6 1895

 

 

 

 

Launched Saltley

WH 9449

6.3.1895

 

 

 

 

Gauged

 

 

15.6.1895

 

 

 

 

Inspected

 

Bm 939.

28.6.1895

Reg

Thomas Crockett

 

 

Registered

 

Bm 939.

26.2.1896

Lei CIJ

Thos Crockett

4--

Scotland (3--)

 

 

 

30.6.1896

Millner L

Crockett

 

 

hits Gayton stage

 

Bm 939.

20.7.1896

Lei CIJ

Thos Crockett

4--

 

"Fly"

 

 

5.4.1901

14.12.1901

Census

Thos Crockett

 

 

In City Road Basin

Maintenance Docking

 

 

11.6.1904

 

 

 

 

Maintenance Docking

 

 

11.1904

 

 

 

 

Maintenance Docking

 

 

9.11.1905

9.11.1905

Millner L

Millner L

 

 

 

Priority of passage

Passage Stoke Bruerne

 

 

13.1.1906

Millner L

 

 

 

Ran into gate of L 17

 

 

3.1906

 

 

 

 

Maintenance Docking

 

Bm 939.

12.5.1906

Dav CIJ

Thos Crockett

4--

 

 

 

 

1.1908

 

 

 

 

Maintenance Docking

 

 

8.1908

 

 

 

 

Maintenance Docking

 

Bm 939.

10.10.1908

Dav CIJ

 

…

 

 

 

Bm 939.

15.1.1909

Dav CIJ

J Griffiths

…

 

 

 

 

2.2.1911

2.4.1911

Millner L

Census

 

Henry Smith

 

4--

 

Nantwich 

with General

taken at the locks, Stoke Bruerne. Crew included Higgins (driver), Last ? and Welsh

 

GJ 11807

20.5.1911

 

 

 

 

Gauged

 

 

1913

 

 

 

 

Maintenance Docking

 

 

2.5.1913

Millner L

Mason

 

 

questions Mason re 25/4 incident

 

Bm 939.

13.7.1915

Bkd CIJ

 

4--

Jersey

 

 

Bm 939.

9.5.1919

Dav CIJ

George Geelin

3--

 

 

 

Bm 939.

28.5.1920

Dav CIJ

J Harrison

3--

 

 

 

Bm 939.

9.2.1921

Dav CIJ

J Harrison

3--

 

 

 

Bm 939.

19.1.1922

Dav CIJ

A. Bell

3--

 

 

 

Bm 939.

27.4.1922

Dav CIJ

A Bell

3--

 

 

 

 

22.4.1923

Millner L

Jones

 

 

tunnel dispute

 

 

11.1925

 

 

 

 

Sold to Charles Court jnr

 

Bm 1481

4.12.1925

Reg

 

 

 

for Charles Court jnr

 

 

5.1.1928

Regauged

 

 

 

+14 cwt

 

 

11807

11807

11807

11807

11807

11807

22.6.1928

20.7.1928 

13.8.1928

3.9.1928

22.9.1928

6.11.1928

13.10.1928

Regauged

Brent Toll 

Brent Toll

Brent Toll

Brent Toll

Brent Toll

Brent Toll

 

 

 

 

 

 

C Court

 

 

Snipe

Snipe

Snipe

Snipe

Snipe

Snipe

+15 cwt

11t 14c

17t 1c

13t 6c

11t 3c

13t 4c

13t 9c

 

 

5.1930

 

 

 

 

Sunk in Brinklow Arm

 

 

Documents on file

Port of London Gauging 9449

pc       

            6.3.1898

GJ Gauging 11807                                                       

pc

20.5.1911

Census City Road Basin                                                          

pc

            5.4.1901

Telegram FMC/Millner re priority of passage

pc

9.8.1905

Telegram  Allen/Millner re passage                                           

pc       

9.11.1905

?/Millner re passing incident in tunnel                            

pc

22.4.1923

Warren/Millner report re above                                    

pc

22.4.1923

WW article Cyril Boucher         re Royal                                               

pc

6.1980

 

 

 

Millner Letters

30.6.1896

            I have also to call to your notice boatman Crockett of the EARL for running full speed into the gauging stage at Gayton when coming in to coke.  Your men appear to do this to save trouble in shafting round to the coke shed.  I need hardly remind you that the steamer suffers equally with the Company’s works.  Millner/FMC

9.11.1905 T

1.10 pm “Fellows wire their Captain of steamer EARL with important goods for Birmingham due Friday wants fourteen pairs boats before he can clear Stoke can anything be done to assist them “  Waterways London (GJCC)/Millner

9.11.1905 T

            6.5pm “The steam boat EARL will be through 12 boats in front of her 16 in all at the bottom 189 boats up to six tonight”.  Allen, Stoke Bruerne/Millner

9.11.1905 (Thurs)

In further reply to your wire re Fellows and Co steamer EARL at Stoke for Birmingham.  This steamer will clear the locks tonight.  It is not advisable for boats to be allowed to pass Stoke locks without waiting strict turns for I am sorry to say that our water supply is still very unsatisfactory.

10.11.1905

….steamer EARL passed here on Thursday night at 10.00.  The HECLA passed at 1.30 this afternoon, but we have no news of the DUKE   Millner/FMC

18.1.1906

EARL ran into the bottom gate at lock 17 Stoke Bruerne on the 13th inst and broke and knocked off the inside balance – the gate now requires a new balance and spliced heel.  I shall be glad if you will let me have your captains version of the accident and I hope you will caution the man to use more care in working the locks.  Millner/FMC

4.2.1911           

            I beg to report that the “Orange” loaded with 27½ tons of castings and grease from Leicester and Market Harborough, Captain H Draycott Jnr and butty boat to the steamer GENERAL, Captain Neal, was sunk opposite Messrs Phipps’ ironstone landing at the north end of Blisworth Tunnel at 4am on Thursday February 2nd.

The  steamer GENERAL and a second steamer EARL with their butties were coupled together for convenience of getting through the ice then on the canal and on passing through the ironstone landing the butty boat “Orange” collided with an empty ironstone boat moored at the landing.

Some of the cast iron plates stowed in the boat’s bottom shifted and caused the boat to roll and sink in the centre of the waterway, leaving sufficient space on the offside  for boats to pass.

Having no boat lifting tackle the only practical way of raising her was to drive a  stank across the canal at Bridge No 50 and put in the drop planks at the north end of the Blisworth Tunnel and draw the water down about 2’ 0” out of a section of canal about  ¾ mile long.

It was found necessary to unload 16 tons of grease in casks and retrim the castings before the boat would rise when all the water was pumped out of her.

The boat was refloated and the traffic moving again at 6pm of the same day.  The accident occurred owing to the heavy load and bad stowage of the plates, no packing being used to prevent these from slipping.

A considerable quantity of water was run away which reduced the head of water in the Blisworth pound by one inch.

Cost of £4. 4. 0 invoiced to FMC

2.5.1913

re Memo of 25th April re accident to EARL.   I met the steamer and questioned Mason.  He states the accident occurred at the Rifle Butts at Stantonbury early morning before it got light – I have had the canal drained but can find no obstruction.  Millner/Thomas

22.4.1923

I have to report to you that today Sunday one of Fellows Morton and Clayton Steamer named the EARL came up oto the north end of the tunnel after the tug had started in the tunnel with five loaded boats in tow she came by all the boats and of course when they tried to get past the tug I told them that I should not let them go by as I was first in the tunnel and they would have to go back they whent abreast of the tug about a hundred yards past the wet pit the Captains name is Jones.  F Warren/Millner

24.4.1923

Warren’s report is that on the 12.30 turn on Sunday he had 5 boats in tow and when he had got about 100 yards in FMC Steamer the EARL followed them in and wanted to pass but of course Warren would not give way to him.  The Steamer caught the Tug up at about No 20 and when Jones the Captain found he could not pass he dropped back and asked Warren not to say anything about it it caused the tug to be 1¼ hours going through.  ? /Millner

 

 

Current Owner:

Hull remains are in the Brinklow Arm

 

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