Name Enterprise

ENTERPRISE was designed to be a maintenance vessel for the South Yorkshire Navigation and the Deane & Dove Canal. Her original owners were the South Yorkshire Navigation Company which was taken over by the British Transport Commission in 1948 and by the British Waterways Board in 1962. Initially, ENTERPRISE was horse drawn and her first engine was put in during the late 1930s. Similarly, she boasted a hand operated crane to begin with, which used the mast and derrick, but this has now been replaced by a modern hydraulic crane. ENTERPRISE was built to West Country size for the Deane & Dove Canal which is slightly smaller than the South Yorkshire Navigation. This also enables her to work on the Calder & Hebble Navigation and the River Ure to Ripon, where she can often be seen today. ENTERPRISE was sold for scrap in 1985, recovered from a scrap yard in Newark by her present owner, returned to Doncaster and put back into service. She is still based on the South Yorkshire Navigation today and used for her original purpose.