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Registration number
1925
Status
Archived
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Details
Function
Cargo Vessel
Subfunction
Narrow Boat
Location
London
Vessel type
Butty
Archive reason
More information required
Current use
Private use
Available to hire
No
Available for excursions
No
Construction
Builder
Nurser Brothers, Braunston
Built in
1957
Hull material
Wood
Rig
None
Number of decks
1
Propulsion
Motor
Number of engines
1
Primary engine type
Diesel
Boiler type
None
Boilermaker
None
Dimensions
Breadth: Beam
7.00 feet
(2.14m)
Depth
2.90 feet
(0.88m)
Length: Overall
72.00 feet
(21.96m)
History
HAZEL is a butty boat (narrowboat towed by horses in former times and nowadays by speedboat) built in 1957 in Northants. She worked for Samuel Barlow's, the coal carrying company, until 1962. Bought by Blue Line Carriers she was later sold to the Wyvern Shipping Company in 1966 and was used as one of their first hireboats.
Her later history is still being researched but she was reported to have sunk in the Nottingham area in the mid 1990s. She was refloated and moved to the Bridgewater canal at Runcorn, Cheshire where extensive work is being carried out. HAZEL was the second to last wooden boat to be built for commercial carrying on canals and is one of only two of Barlow's Butty boats remaining in existence.
Key dates
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1957
Built by Barlow’s at Nurser’s Yard at Braunston for for Samuel Barlow Coal Co as a narrow boat (Butty) and is a sister butty to ‘Raymond’
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1957-62
She worked as a coal carrier
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1962
She was bought by Blue Line Carriers and later sold to the Wyvern Shipping Co
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1966
She was one of the early hire boats converted to a Holiday Cruiser
-
1970
She was fitted with a Lister SR3 Diesel Engine
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1975-77
Sold to the Holman Family who lived on her
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1977
She sank in the Nottingham area after the bow was rebuilt By John Whalley
-
1995
She was refloated and moved to the Bridgewater Canal at Runcorn, Cheshire.
-
1990
She was worked on by Rucorn
-
2008
Sold to the present owner
-
2010
She was dry-docked at Enfield Dry dock
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