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SULTAN

SULTAN, Tied back to bridge 13 below lock 8 on the Buckby Flight.  The signal box in the background is beside the former London North Western Railway.

(Postcard from unrecorded source)

 

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Craft

Fleet No

Built at

 

Hull

Cost

Owner

Launch Date

SULTAN

251

Saltley Dock

Iron Composite

£600

FMC

6.1899

Steamer Registrations

Place

PH Number

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham

1034

George Jones

8.6.1899

7.7.1899

Steamer Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

Port of London

GJC

14088

11689

12t 10cwt

27.4.1900

7.3.1911

Hull Composition

 

Maintenance

Date

Bunkers repaired

7.1906

Boiler

Type

Tubes

PSI

Cost

 

Danks

44 x 2¼’’

110 lbs

 

 

Maintenance

Date

3 new tubes

11.1903

Engine

FMC Haines

Maintenance

Date

 

 

Propeller Shaft

9’1½’  ( 8’ 1½’’ – 10’’ – 2’’ )

Maintenance

Date

New shaft

New shaft 10’

11.1903

7.1906

Steamer History

Date

Millner/Thomas mention in letter

Millner letter “Collision in Blisworth Tunnel”

Millner letter “met with mishap below Buckby”

5.7.1899

3.5.1912

9.12.1914

Conversion to motor            

At

Cost

Engine

Cost

Date

 Saltley

£310

15 hp Bolinder Model NE    (Pollock 1115)

221.9.0

22.5.1924

Motor Registrations

Place

PH No

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham

1540

James Boswell

15.3.1932

15.4.1932

Motor Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

BCN

GJC

GJC

GJC

974

12127

12127

12127

 

 

Deduct 2 cwts

No difference

5.12.1924

26.6.1925

24.5.1929

13.5.1940

Maintenance

Docked at Saltley

Docked at Uxbridge

1.1936

3.1939

Motor History

Date

Harlow/TWM “towing boats through Braunston while the tug was working”

21.6.1924

Fate

Sold to E Thomas, Walsall

Date

12.1941

 

 

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