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PINCHER

Craft Fleet No Built at Hull Cost Type PINCHER         Steam tug Owners Address Source for First Date Grand Junction Canal Co   GJCC Minutes 21.12.1875 Steamer Registrations Owner Place PH No As Date Inspected Date Registered             Steamer Gaugings Owner Place Gauging Number Notes Date           Boiler     Engine     Steamer History Boiler explosion at Yardley Wharf Sold Grand Junction Canal Co auction (Lot No 138) £9.9.0 (Hull only with cast iron boiler and engine bed) at Wenlock Basin Portions of engine comprising cylinder, connecting and eccentric rods, brasses, valves, etc. (Lot No 30) £3.10s   21.12.1875 11.10.1876   11.10.1876 Fate   Date

GJCC Minutes (PRO)

PRO RAIL 830/50

 

22.12.1875              The Chairman reported that a serious boiler explosion had occurred on board the Company’s steamer Pincher at Yardley Wharf on the morning of the 21st inst by which the two Engine Drivers lost their lives and the steamer was entirely destroyed. The Pincher was on her way from London to Birmingham laden with 13 tons of Potash and towing a train of five boats;  she had stopped at Yardley Wharf for the purpose of landing some grain from one of the boats, and had been lying there about an hour  before the accident took place. The cause of the explosion was not  known.  The boiler had  undergone a thorough repair in February last and was in very good condition.

 

1.3.1876                  Read a letter dated 24^th February from Mr W J Hodgekins of Birmingham, written on behalf of the parents of Thomas Hartland, engine driver who had lost his life by the explosion of the boiler on board the steamer Pincher applying for some relief for the parents who were represented to be in poor circumstances.  The Committee directed that the sum of £5 be presented to them for expenses of the funeral.

 

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