Registration number 1874
Status Registered
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Details

Function Cargo Vessel
Subfunction Barge
Location Northwich
Current use Ongoing conservation
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Yarwood, W J & Sons Ltd, Northwich
Built in 1952
Hull material Steel
Rig None
Number of decks 1
Propulsion Motor
Number of engines 1
Primary engine type Diesel
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
14.90 feet (4.54m)
Depth
5.00 feet (1.53m)
Length: Overall
70.00 feet (21.35m)
Tonnage: Gross
28.00

History

Motor barge PARFIELD was built by Yarwoods of Northwich in 1952. Her official number was 184854. Her hull is riveted and she has a bluff bow and counter stern. Her engine is an inboard diesel made by Gardner; model L3, with four cylinders and eighty horsepower at 800 rpm. PARFIELD worked for twenty-five years on the Manchester Ship Canal carrying general cargo. Her main freight was taking grain to the Kellogg’s Cornflake Factory on the Bridewater Canal in Trafford Park. She has been sympathetically converted for extensive cruising and is the only remaining barge built by Yarwoods.

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