Name this boat please

[Carl Ryan]

Hired a boat for a few days after 30 years and saw a few boats that I would like the name of. Here is the first one. Moored at the top of the Napton flight last Tuesday.

 

 

 

Many thanks

 

Carl

[Grace and Favour]

BEECH

[GoodGurl]

BEECH Built by F M C - Length 21.49 metres (70 feet 6 inches ) - Beam 1.83 metres (6 feet ) - Draft 0.79 metres (2 feet 7 inches ) Wooden hull, power of 56 BHP. Registered with British Waterways number 79260 as a Powered. Last registration recorded on 20-Apr-2012.

[Grace and Favour]

BEECH Built by F M C - Length 21.49 metres (70 feet 6 inches ) - Beam 1.83 metres (6 feet ) - Draft 0.79 metres (2 feet 7 inches ) Wooden hull, power of 56 BHP. Registered with British Waterways number 79260 as a Powered. Last registration recorded on 20-Apr-2012.

 

Acknowledgement: Information from Jim Shead's website

[GoodGurl]

Acknowledgement: Information from Jim Shead's website

yes sorry i do apologise

[Carl Ryan]

Many thanks for the quick reply, I will post another tomorrow.

 

Carl

[antarmike]

width six foot ????????

[mark99]

BEECH Built by F M C - Length 21.49 metres (70 feet 6 inches ) - Beam 1.83 metres (6 feet ) - Draft 0.79 metres (2 feet 7 inches ) Wooden hull, power of 56 BHP. Registered with British Waterways number 79260 as a Powered. Last registration recorded on 20-Apr-2012.

 

 

Did FMC actually build boats?

 

my understanding albeit limited, is that they commissioned them from Yarwoods, Walkers, H+W etc?

 

Thanks

 

M

[David Schweizer]

width six foot ????????

I shouldn't be too surprised. Jim Shead's list has the length, width, draft, name of builder and date of last registration wrong for our boat. In fact everything except the name and Index Number!

 

I have discussed this with Jim, but he got the details from BW, who have recorded the wrong builder, and have converted the old imperial dimensions into metric getting the calculations wrong!

[Derek R.]

Did FMC actually build boats?

 

my understanding albeit limited, is that they commissioned them from Yarwoods, Walkers, H+W etc?

 

Thanks

 

M

 

Yes. A brief and inadequate history of the company (complete with spelling errors) can be found HERE. There are books available.

You will not find any FMC boats built by H&W.

[pete harrison]

You will not find any FMC boats built by H&W.

Or 'Walkers'

[carlt]

Did FMC actually build boats?

 

Yes they built the second best workboats on the cut at Uxbridge (I believe inferior boats were built by them elsewhere, too).

[pete harrison]

I have discussed this with Jim, but he got the details from BW, who have recorded the wrong builder, and have converted the old imperial dimensions into metric getting the calculations wrong!

And B.W.B. only get their information from the boat owner, presumably via their boat licence application form

[mark99]

Or 'Walkers'

 

 

Thanks, I think FMC had Walker boats but that was only because they (FMC) took over a struggling carrier whom had commissioned Walker boats. It's in the Walkers of Ricky book somewhere.

 

Mark

[Carl Ryan]

Sadly no six foot wide Trench boats left.

 

Anyway here is the next picture. This one was at Clattercote. I think it has been discussed before but I cannot remember its name. I think it needs a bit of work.

 

 

 

 

Carl

[carlt]

No it's at Appletree.

 

Big Ricky Langho.

[Laurence Hogg]

Did FMC actually build boats?

 

my understanding albeit limited, is that they commissioned them from Yarwoods, Walkers, H+W etc?

 

Thanks

 

M

I think you have the wrong company in mind, those names supplied the Grand Union Canal Carrying Co Ltd.

Fellows & Co built at first at Fazeley st, then as Fellows, Morton & Clayton at Saltley dock Birmingham and then at their own dock at waterloo st Uxbridge (today Uxbridge boat centre). Yarwoods was the largest metal sub builder but also Braithwaite & Kirk supplied iron boats together with Harris of Netherrton. Wooden boats came from a number of suppliers such as Lees & Atkins & Nursers.

[Athy]

Definitely not at Clattercote, unless it's changed a lot in the four weeks since we last visited our boat which is moored there.

[mark99]

I think you have the wrong company in mind, those names supplied the Grand Union Canal Carrying Co Ltd.

Fellows & Co built at first at Fazeley st, then as Fellows, Morton & Clayton at Saltley dock Birmingham and then at their own dock at waterloo st Uxbridge (today Uxbridge boat centre). Yarwoods was the largest metal sub builder but also Braithwaite & Kirk supplied iron boats together with Harris of Netherrton. Wooden boats came from a number of suppliers such as Lees & Atkins & Nursers.

 

 

Yes cheers Lawrence, you are correct. GUCCC fits that bill.

[Carl Ryan]

Many thanks Carlt. I seem to remember it from a previous thread.

Also have another picture of a wooden boat on the slipway which is well out of focus but was told it was Poplar.

If so does anyone have a photo of this bost that is in focus that they could post.

 

 

Carl

[carlt]

Wooden boats came from a number of suppliers such as Lees & Atkins & Nursers.

FMC also built some excellent wooden boats themselves at Uxbridge.

[Derek R.]

Hang on - I'll get my glasses . . . . Nope, no better.

 

Could be my shed.

 

You should call yourself fuzzyduck.

Edited September 30, 2012 by Derek R.

[Carl Ryan]

Another wooden motor tied between Wigrams and Braunston. Does anyone know the name please.

 

 

 

Carl

[Athy]

I'm sure that we saw that one this summer - she's moored along with a couple of other older style boats, on the offside, isn't she? I don't think any of them were displaying their names. I do remember this one because she looked "hogged" and I wondered if she might be beyond repair. She looked abandoned, but one of the other boats moored near her had rather clever polythene windows built into the cloth hold coverings and looked inhabited.

[carlt]

Another wooden motor tied between Wigrams and Braunston. Does anyone know the name please.

 

 

Hesperus, built by Walkers of Rickmansworth.

 

The butty behind is also a "Star Class" Ricky, Ariel.

 

I do remember this one because she looked "hogged" and I wondered if she might be beyond repair. She looked abandoned, but one of the other boats moored near her had rather clever polythene windows built into the cloth hold coverings and looked inhabited.

She's in pretty good repair and certainly not abandoned.

 

The Polythene windowed tarps are army surplus mess tents.

 

I preferred the tunnel tents that linked the big mess tents because they had no windows so I could cut my own and give them proper glass with wooden frames.

 

The plastic windows deteriorate quite quickly, shortening the life of the tarps.

Edited September 30, 2012 by carlt