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 1¾’’ 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