Registration number 1637
Status Registered
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Buckden (& Saturn) - aerial view from Chester City Walls April 2010 (Photo Comp entry)
Buckden - port bow looking aft. Near Watford, September 2007, carrying a cargo of furniture.
Photo Comp 2012 entry: Swan and Buckden resting at Hebden Bridge
Buckden & Saturn at Dutton

Details

Function Cargo Vessel
Subfunction Barge
Location Stourbridge
Current use Private use
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Harland & Wolff Ltd, Woolwich
Built in 1936
Rig None
Number of decks 1
Number of engines 1
Primary engine type Diesel
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
6.98 feet (2.13m)
Depth
2.98 feet (0.91m)
Length: Overall
71.44 feet (21.79m)

History

BUCKDEN is a narrowboat, built by Harland & Wolff Ltd. at North Woolwich, for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company Ltd (GUCCC).  She carried cargo for the GUCCC until 1948 and then, after nationalisation that same year, she was transferred into the British Waterways Fleet until 1963. 

She briefly became a houseboat but was subsequently restored for carrying again in the mid-1970s, carrying occasionally for present owners since 1996.

BUCKDEN often tows the historic flyboat SATURN.

The vessel has undergone periodic partial re-plating and is riveted where visible.  Her cabin and engine room was re-built to the original 1936 construction and detail, but painted in current owners' 1970s livery.  Her engine installation is original, with an electric start added.

 

 

Key dates

  • 1936

    Built by Harland & Wolff, Woolwich

Own this vessel?

If you are the owner of this vessel and would like to provide more details or updated information, please contact info@nationalhistoricships.org.uk