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Date

Action

Owner

Name

Source

11.1941

 

Sold to Oxford Coop. Used for carrying ex Coventry coalfield

Oxford Co-op

PRINCE

 

 

undated

 

Change of owner to Oxford Co-operative on GS GJ 12145

Oxford Co-op

PRINCE

 

GS

12.6.1943

 

Regauged for Oxford Coop Deduct 3 cwt

Oxford Co-op

PRINCE

 

GS

 

 

Boatman was Joe Harwood with butty SEARCHLIGHT (Picture in Rolt Inland Waterways Plate XLIII)

Oxford Co-op

PRINCE

 

Phil Garrett 2.6.01

1945

 

Inspected at Banbury

Oxford Co-op

PRINCE

 

Banbury CIJ via A D

1946

 

Inspected at Banbury with SEARCHLIGHT (J Harwood)

Oxford Co-op

PRINCE

 

Banbury CIJ via A D

8.1.1946

 

Oxford & District Coop Society, 65 George St, Oxford. Sold 4 years ago to O.Coop Reg Cert not amended

Oxford Co-op

PRINCE

 

HRD note via PH

4.1948

 

To Tom Whitley. Still fitted with single cylinder Bolinder. Taken from Oxford to Hammersmith and moored by the Whitley's sailing barge. Converted to hotel boat.

T Whitley

PRINCE

 

Doris Whitley 13.5.01

4.1951

 

Run with Mafeking as early pair of hotel boats. Waterborne Tours.

T Whitley

PRINCE

 

Doris Whitley 13.5.01

6.12.1953

 

Inaugural meeting of APCO held on board

T Whitley

PRINCE

 

WW 2.1984

c1954

 

Fitted with new Bolinder 1052 BR 2 cylinder. Possibly first of its kind in UK

T Whitley

PRINCE

 

Doris Whitley 13.5.01

1962

 

Retired from hotel boating, cruised for 2  years  then settled at Old Stables, Audlem

T Whitley

PRINCE

 

Doris Whitley 13.5.01

1977

 

To Raymond Kearnes at Middlewich. Collected from Audlem. Deconverted and asbestos cabin removed

T Whitley

PRINCE

 

Ray Kearnes 15.5.01

24.6.1978

 

at Middlewich

T Whitley

PRINCE

 

AB

13.4.1979

 

at Middlewich with Bolinder 1052 BR (plate missing) type 777696 No 1008 Gearbox 1.5:1

T Whitley

PRINCE

 

AB

1979/80

 

To Malcolm Webster. Put on bank at Malkins Bank.

Restored and relaunched

M Webster

PRINCE

 

 

7.2001

 

 Photographed by RT at Malkins Bank BW 74179

M Webster

PRINCE

 

RT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sightings

 

Ref

Date

Source

Captain

Crew

Butty

Notes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRINCE

June 1898

 

 

 

 

Launched Saltley

WH 9987

19.8.1898

 

 

 

 

Gauged

 

8.8.1898

 

 

 

 

Inspected

Bm 1011

5.10.1898

Reg

J Dickinson

 

 

Registered

 

9.1902

 

 

 

 

Maintenance docking

 

12.1903

 

 

 

 

Maintenance docking

 

9.1904

 

 

 

 

Maintenance docking

 

11.4.1905

Millner L

 

 

 

Using indecent and abusive language

Bm 1011

23.8.1905

Dav CIJ

Edwards

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Bm 1011

24.11.1905

Dav CIJ