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VICTORIA

VICTORIA and butty Roumania, possibly in Braunston bottom lock

(L.Hogg)

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Craft

Fleet No

Built at

Hull

Cost

Owner

Launch Date

VICTORIA

117

Tipton Dock or Saltley Dock

Wood

Fellow Morton & Co or William Clayton

1886 or 1887

Pre FMC History

Date

Purchased from FM & Co or William Clayton

3.7.1889 (1.1.1889)

Steamer Registrations

Place

PH Number

Captain

Date Inspected

Date Registered

Birmingham (for W Clayton) Birmingham (for FMC)

673 848

William Coates William Court

19.11.1888 17.3.1893

27.11.1888 29.3.1893

Steamer Gaugings

Place

Gauging Number

Notes

Date

BCN Port of London GJC GJC

12720 9444 11674 11674

12t 6cwt Add 6 cwt

15.4.1890 14.9.1894 26.1.1911 25.4.1914

Hull Composition

Bottom elm, sides oak

Maintenance

Date

Boat inspected, planking getting very bad in places. Hull will not pay to spend much on, for patching up, but fore end is new and hull would require new planks in sides in places. New planks put in where required, iron cabin sides &c.

14.4.1902 2.1904

Boiler

Type

Tubes

PSI

Cost

J Watt & Co

54 x 1¾’’

90 lbs

Maintenance

Date

Retubed Retubed Retubed, mattress (asbestos ex UAC) Boiler burnt out, one ex EMPEROR (converted to motor 4.1917) put in Boiler damaged by C Court

3.1899 3.1901 7.1908 1917 12.1918

Engine

Nettlefolds

Maintenance

Date

Propeller Shaft

4’ 9½’’ (3’ 9¾’’ – 10½’’ – 2’’ )

Maintenance

Date

New shaft New shaft

8.1906 7.1908

Steamer History

Date

Listed at Waterman’s Hall No 1396 (15 ton) as Steam Carrying Tug Millner letter mentions VICTORIA captain J Neale Millner letter re bridge complaint captain Wilkinson Millner letter re tunnel flag contravention Captain J Wilkinson Millner letter re paddle left up Captain James Wilkinson Millner letter re Maltese dog

20.5.1890 23.12.1895 2.3.1907 23.7.1907 28.9.1911 19.12.1912

Fate

Hull sent to Bradley and Turton for experimental purposes with motor

Date

7.1919

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