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