Craft

Fleet No

Built at

Hull

Cost

Type

NETTLE

Wood

Cargo Steamer Tug Boat

Owners

Address

Source for

First Date

GJCC

(London & Staffordshire Carrying Co)

SURCCo

Grand Junction Wharf Ealing

Chester (cost £255)

Auction Catalogue

Watermans Hall

Application Reg

10.1876

30.7.1877

27.12.1878

Steamer Registrations

Owner

Place

PH No

As

Date Inspected

Date Registered

SURCCo

Chester

48

Steamer Narrowboat Flyboat

25.1.1879

15.3.1879

Steamer Gaugings

Owner

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

Boiler

Vertical flue boiler 7’ x 4’ 6’’ diameter ; copper water heater, direct action force and lift donkey pump

Engine

10hp inverted 10’’ cylinder direct action engine, driving a Griffiths’ 2-bladed wrought iron screw with gunmetal bosses

Maintenance

Steamer History

Date

Sold for £168.0.0 (GJCC auction) (Lot No 102) Lying at Fazeley St

Listed at Watermans Hall  for (London & Staffordshire) 1008/6309 as 10 (ton?) canal steamboat

Chester 48 notes “2 cabins”

Minute 17528 13.10.1888: “should be discontinued as soon as possible for general use”

Minute 18141 Authority given for the old Canal Tugs with the Engines and Boilers to be Sold. (Nettle?)

3.10.1876

30.7.1877

15.3.1879

13.10.1888

26.3.1890

Fate

Cut up (Chester 232)

Date

6.1887