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HECLA, tied back to Lock 11, c 1910. William Griffin is the well-dressed captain, His son, George, is the driver.  There are two cows peering round the unidentified crew member sitting on the cabin block. Another (camera-shy?) crewman is in the field beyond.

(Daisy Branson (George Griffin's daughter) via Jon Millard

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Craft

Fleet No

Built  at

Hull

Cost

Owner

Launch Date

HECLA (a)

127

Toll End, Tipton

Wood

 

Fellows Morton & Co

1885

Pre FMC History

Date

Purchased from Fellows Morton & Co

3.7.1889 (1.1.1889)

Steamer Registrations

Place

PH Number

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Wolverhampton (for FM & Co)

Birmingham (for FMC)

481

803

Samuel Fisher

Edward Wenlock

2.5.1885

19.2.1892

11.5.1885

27.2.1892

Steamer Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

BCN

Port of London

GJC

12330

9438

11677

For FM & Co

11t 12cwt

15.1.1889

14.9.1894

2.2.1911

Hull Composition

Bottom elm

Maintenance

Date

New elm bottom in hold to fore end

New planks in one side, bunker part new, one cabin side plate and end (port side)

New planks in fore end, new cabin side plate (starboard side)

8.1901

1.1906

5.1908

Boiler

Type

Tubes

PSI

Cost

 

Cochrane

54 x 1Ύ’’ in rows both ways

100 lbs

 

 

Maintenance

Date

New back and end plate, ring and tubes

Retubed (29)

Retubed, mattress put on (asbestos ex Smethwick Co)

Boiler burnt out

8.1901

9.1903

1.1906

1915

Engine

Haines  1886

Maintenance

Date

Crankshaft broken, Hanwell locks; New crankshaft, square web

12.1905

Propeller Shaft

6’ 1½’’  (5’ 1½’’ + 9½’’ taper + 2½’’ thread

Maintenance

Date

New shaft, P rings and stern bush

Shaft and bush

9.1903

5.1908

Steamer History

Date

Listed at Waterman’s Hall No 1396 (15 ton) as Steam Carrying Tug

Photo in Birmingham Archives of blown up boiler (MS454 – 29-31)

Millner letter mentions HECLA ramming gates

Millner letter “Passed Gayton at 1.30 this afternoon”

20.5.1890

Undated

20.2.1896

10.11.1905

Fate

Dismantled  and new hull built at Uxbridge and launched 8.1922

Date

11.1921

                                   

 

 

 

Craft

Fleet No

ReBuilt at

New Hull

Cost

Owner

Launch Date

HECLA (II) (b)

127

Uxbridge

Wood

£635

FMC

 8.1922

Steamer Registrations

Place

PH Number

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham

1436

M Gould

28.4.1922

19.5.1922

Steamer Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

GJC

11914

 

22.9.1922

Hull Composition

 

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Boiler

Type

Tubes

PSI

Cost

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Engine

FMC Haines

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Propeller Shaft

6’ 1½’’  (5’ 1½’’ – 9½’’ taper + 2½’’ thread

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Steamer History

Date

Braunston during FMC Strike

13.8.1923-17.11.1923

Conversion to motor       

At

Cost

Engine

Cost

Date

  Uxbridge

£275

15hp Bolinder Model NE     (Pollock 1114)

 

12.7.1924

Motor Registrations

Place

PH No

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

 

 

 

 

 

Motor Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

BCN

GJC

GJC

1410

12144

12144

 

 

Deduct 9 cwt

17.7.1928

18.10.1926

18.3.1938

Maintenance

Docked at Uxbridge

Docked at Saltley

Docked at Saltley

7.1935

12.1937

4.1940

Motor History

Date

DeSalis notebook "Heavy load MB HECLA and BB FAZELEY loaded Coombeswood  with tubes: H 26t 3cwt 3q 24 lb and F 28t 19cwt 2q 24lb making a total of 55t 3cwt 2q 22 lb    

11.2.1926

Fate

Sold to Samuel Barlow Coal Co Ltd, Braunston

Date

9.1941

                                     

 

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