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GENERAL

GENERAL, loaded with 16 tons of sugar for Birmingham, is at Buckby above lock 11.  The captain is Joby Neal and his son is the driver.

(BW192/3/2/2/12/1/52)

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Craft

Fleet No

Built at

Hull

Cost

Owner

Launch Date

GENERAL

155

Saltley Dock

Iron Composite

£600

FMC

20.11.1907 (left)

Steamer Registrations

Place

PH Number

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham

1192

Job Neale

16.11.1907

29.11.1907

Steamer Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

GJC

11671

 

23.1.1911

Hull Composition

Bottom elm, keelson pitch pine 4’’ x 10’’, gunwale 2’’ oak

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Boiler

Type

Tubes

PSI

Cost

 

J Thompson

44 x 2¼’’ & 10 stay tubes

110 lbs

£90

 

Maintenance

Date

Silicate boiler mattress ex Lawson

nk

Engine

Haines FMC

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Propeller Shaft

 

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Steamer History

Date

Millner letter “General’s butty “ORANGE with 17½ tons of castings sank at N end of Blisworth tunnel”

 

4.2.1911

 

Conversion to motor            

At

Cost

Engine

Cost

Date

Saltley

£316

15hp Bolinder Model NE    (Pollock 1113)

£221.9.0

8.5.1924

Motor Registrations

Place

PH No

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham CIJ   (Fly as Ord)

Note 293

 

15.8.1934

 

Motor Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

BCN

GJC

GJC

GJC

1552

12146

12146

12146

 

 

Deduct 5 cwt

Deduct 19 cwt

17.1.1930

19.10.1926

24.12.1930

21.3.1933

Maintenance

Docked Uxbridge

Docked Saltley

Docked Saltley

6.1936

7.1939

6.1943

Motor History

Date

 

 

Fate

Sold to E Thomas, Walsall

Date

7.1946

 

 

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