Craft

Fleet No

Built at

Hull

Cost

Owner

Launch Date

PHOENIX (a)

54

Toll End, Tipton

Wood

Fellows Morton & Co

1884

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

Birmingham (for FM & Co)¹

440

Walter Green

9.7.1884

16.7.1884

Steamer Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

Hull Composition

Boiler

Type

Tubes

PSI

Cost

nk

Engine

Haines FMC

Steamer History

Date

¹ With fore cabin

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

20.5.1890

Fate

Hull rebuilt at Saltley Dock

Date

12.1893

Craft

Fleet No

ReBuilt at

New Hull

Cost

Owner

Launch Date

PHOENIX (b)

54

Saltley Dock

Wood

£500

FMC

12.1893

Steamer Registrations

Place

PH Number

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham

886

Arthur Humphries

14.11.1893

1.12.1893

Steamer Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

BCN

Port of London

GJC

13795

9441

11679

11t 18cwt

c20.5.1894

14.9.1894

6.2.1911

Hull Composition

Maintenance

Date

Boiler

Type

Tubes

PSI

Cost

Date

Danks, corrugated flue

44 x 2¼’’

110 lbs

£86.5.0

9.1900

Maintenance

Date

Retubed

6.1904

Engine

FMC Haines

Maintenance

Date

Slide valves altered to standard width and new exhaust lap

Thrust shaft broken

9.1909

8.1911

Propeller Shaft

6’ 2’’  ( 5’ 2’’ – 10’’ – 2’’ )

Maintenance

Date

New propeller and shaft

New shaft, shaft end cut off

Shaft 6’ 2’’ and bush

New shaft

10.1901

6.1904

11.1906

10.1908

Steamer History

Date

Millner correspondence re court action and dispute with BUFFALO

Said to be first working boat through Foxton

Turrell/TWM mentions PHOENIX

FMC/TWM“conduct of steerer Young”

Millner  letter “grazed stank”

FMC/TWM “Delayed in bridgehole”

1.9.1896

1900

2.8.1905

18.4.1907

2.7.1917

6.9.1915

Fate

Dismantled  (FMC Dock Book)

Hull sold to A J Wilkins to be cut up  (C P Weaver)

Date

9.1925

10. 1926