Introduction The Steam Boat Association of Great Britain
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STEAMBOAT REGISTER - Edition 8, Jan/12
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Owner: Bristol City Museum. (SBA member - South West Region)
Area: Bristol Floating Harbour (UK).
HULLRiver tug
Built 1861 by Stothert & Marten at Bristol.
LOA: 65', LWL: 63' 5", Beam: 12', Displacement: 32 tons gross.
Riveted iron
Counter stern.
ENGINECompound, 12" + 22" x 16".
Built 1898 by W. Sisson & Co. Ltd. at Gloucester.
Valve(s): sv, Gear: Hackworth Radial.
No.533. 2 tfc, surface cond. integral with cbs, air and feed pumps lever-driven from LP Xhead.
BOILERRT Scotch.
Built 1930.
Pressure: 100 psi.
2-flue with furnace front from 1909 Stothert boiler, 66 x 3" tubes.
PROP
HISTORYNew to Timothy Hadley, towage contractor to Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Co. 1874 to Sharpness New Docks & Gloucester & Birmingham Nav. Co. 1948 to BWB. Withdrawn from service 1964. 1967 C.Morgan. c1972 K. T. Donaghy, went derelict, 1981 acquired for preservation, restored 1982-7, first re-steamed Sept 1987. Now on display at Bristol Industrial Museum.
SBA memberUK
 
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(Lyn Smith) Bristol, 1990

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