Tracing "Snail" formerly "The Duke of York"

[Max Sinclair]

and I own the BCN plate. (Bought off Ebay not nicked off Umbriel!) Of course if the plates had all stayed with the boats then there wouldn't be the confusion over the history of re-named boats.

 

I don't think the histories of some of the boats which workerd on the BCN will ever be fully known. The boats were tools rather than homes and the owners had little sentimental attachment to them. I strongly suspect that names were changed, names re-used and identities swapped around on occasions- certainly Ernie Thomas was rumoured to have done so.

 

Paul H

I have happy memories of picnicking in a field by the River Avon near Pershore in 1958 with my late wife and children when this lovely boat Snail cruised past. It started us thinking about a narrow boat as a family cruiser.Its fully sheeted up cabin was very well set up.