Harland and Wolff makers plate

[zenataomm]

Superb advert thanks for posting.

[fittie]

Oops, just checked not round but oval. It does say Harland & Wolff, North Woolwich, London amongst other stuff.

good picture here http://canalsidecamera.weebly.com/star-class.html

[zenataomm]

Oops, just checked not round but oval. It does say Harland & Wolff, North Woolwich, London amongst other stuff.

good picture here http://canalsidecamera.weebly.com/star-class.html

 

Duff link

[fittie]

oh, so it is - hay ho. I googled historic narrowboat Venus and there it was.

[Markinaboat]

 

I hate to disappoint you ....... I put that on her when she was a butty .....I copied it from the one I had on Rigal, which itself was a copy that I got from R Fuller esq. spinster of this parish.

So you had Marcie before Ian Clifton converted her? The plaque was(is?) on the port side of the forward bulkhead before the 10ft hold.

[zenataomm]

So you had Marcie before Ian Clifton converted her? The plaque was(is?) on the port side of the forward bulkhead before the 10ft hold.

 

She was originally wearing it on the left side at the end of the back cabin in the full length hold.

But it was still an aluminum copy of the (also) aluminium copy I had on my motor Rigal.

The definition wasn't good, and if the lettering isn't picked out in a good contrasting colour it was pretty well lost IIRC.

 

My wife Zita and I bought Marcellus from John Edwards at Gas Street Basin in the early 80s.

When we divorced she kept Marcellus and I kept Rigal.

She married Ian Clifton who did the building her into two boats at Royden Farm Shardlow.

[Markinaboat]

 

She was originally wearing it on the left side at the end of the back cabin in the full length hold.

But it was still an aluminum copy of the (also) aluminium copy I had on my motor Rigal.

The definition wasn't good, and if the lettering isn't picked out in a good contrasting colour it was pretty well lost IIRC.

 

My wife Zita and I bought Marcellus from John Edwards at Gas Street Basin in the early 80s.

When we divorced she kept Marcellus and I kept Rigal.

She married Ian Clifton who did the building her into two boats at Royden Farm Shardlow.

I remember speaking with Zita not long after I bought the boat in 2003. I do remember the plaque being well defined though. Was a lovely boat!

[David Mack]

 

And a similar view today:

http://binged.it/1S1gJe5

Oops, just checked not round but oval. It does say Harland & Wolff, North Woolwich, London amongst other stuff.

good picture here http://canalsidecamera.weebly.com/star-class.html

 

This?

[David Mack]

 

Duff link

 

Cuff Link:

[zenataomm]

 

Cuff Link:

[fittie]

 

And a similar view today:

http://binged.it/1S1gJe5

 

This?

That's it, last saw this 30 years ago when we were looking at buying it.

[David Mack]

Anyone after a H&W builder's plate isn't going to want to pay this much! And I think it's a repro anyway.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/295934575679

 

 

[magnetman]

Not much good for a narrow boat is it. 

 

 

The advert has the word facsimile so no it isn't an old one.

"Facsimile alla stessa placca per il Titanic ai primi del 900"

[David Mack]

10 minutes ago, magnetman said:

Not much good for a narrow boat is it. 

Well.... owning a narrow boat named 'Belfast', although it was built at North Woolwich...

 

This is clearly something produced for the Titanic souvenir market.