Craft

Fleet No

Built at

Hull

Cost

Owner

Launch Date

QUEEN

9

Tipton Dock

Wood

Fellows Morton & Co

1887

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

Wolverhampton (for F M & Co)

591

c20.6.1887

6.1887

Steamer Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

BCN

Port of London

GJC

GJC

BCN

12326

9442

11680

11680

22596 (There is a little doubt that this refers to Queen even though it has the correct Fleet No.[9])

11t 16cwt

Add 7 cwts

Open wood boat

10.1.1889

14.9.1894

7.2.1911

11.7.1915

18.11.1916

Hull Composition

Wood

Maintenance

Date

Extensive repairs to boat

This boat has square under counter and cranked rudder post to bring hole in line for shaft end.

11.1901

Boiler

Type

Tubes

PSI

Cost

Cochranes

48 x 1¾’’

100 lbs

Maintenance

Date

New back end plate to boiler, new ring and tubes

S.V. straps

48 new tubes

Dome taken off boiler to have patch on; “D” patch underneath (put on 1901) corroded shell at end

Funnel double joint on top funnel. [ Sketch] Narrow angle

11.1901

3.1903

8.1906

4.1909

Engine

Haines 1887

Maintenance

Date

Crankshaft broken in Blisworth Tunnel

Top cylinder new

27.3.1904

8.1906

Propeller Shaft

7’ 10¼’’  ( 6’ 10’’ – 10¼’’ – 2’’ )

Maintenance

Date

Stern bush

8.1906

Steamer History

Date

Millner letter re bridge dispute Captain Edward Griffiths

TWM/FMC “working through Blisworth Tunnel”

Quoted in Millner letter with butty Kineton

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

8.3.1907

21.6.1914

13.6.1914

20.5.1890

Fate

Dismantled and altered to coke boat  (FMC Dock book)

Noted “Cut up”  (BCN 22596)

Date

18.11.1916

16.4.1926