Craft

Fleet No

Built at

Hull

Cost

Owner

Launch Date

PRINCE

20

Saltley Dock

Iron Composite

£600

FMC

10+.1898

Steamer Registrations

Place

PH Number

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham

1011

J Dickinson

8.8.1898

5.10.1898

Steamer Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

Port of London

GJC

GJC

9987

11672

11672

71.6 x 6.9 x 3.6   12t 16cwt

Add 8 cwts

19.8.1898

24.1.1911

19.6.1913

Hull Composition

Maintenance

Date

Sides of boiler hold – plain iron plates

New cabin sides (galvanised)

9.1904

Boiler

Type

Tubes

PSI

Cost

Fletcher

2¼’’

100 lbs

Maintenance

Date

Pressure altered to 110 lbs

Retubed

9.1902

Engine

FMC Haines

Maintenance

Date

Propeller Shaft

9’ 3’’  ( 8’ 3’’ – 10’’ – 2’’ )

Maintenance

Date

Shaft out, key fitted and turned

New shaft

12.1903

9.1904

Steamer History

Date

Taylor/TWM “captain using indecent and abusive language”

Warren/TWM “went in (tunnel) and tug had to back out with wide boat” Capt Fred Edwards

Millner letter “leaving a paddle up about a foot and wasting 6 lockfuls of water at No 11 on Monday night last

TWM/FMC & reply  “damaged lock 20 at Stoke, Captain Edwards”

TWM/FMC re damage to Lock gate 20 (appears to be separate incident)

Betts/TWM & FMC TWM “Entered Braunston (Tunnel) without light” Capt Fred Edwards

TWM/FMC “ passed too fast” Capt Edwards

4.1905

23.12.1911

30.12.1913

29.1.1915

11.2.1915

15.1.1917

22.12.1922

Conversion to motor            

At

Cost

Engine

Cost

Date

Uxbridge

£339

15 hp Bolinder Model NE    (Pollock 1123)

£190

18.3.1926

Motor Registrations

Place

PH No

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham

1534

Edward Westwood

27.1.1931

20.2.1931

Motor Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

GJC

12145

19.10.1926

Maintenance

New foreshoe

Docked at Saltley

Docked at Saltley

12.1927

10.1936

11.1939

Motor History

Date

Fate

Sold to Oxford Co-operative Society

Date

11.1941