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WHELDALE was built in 1959 for British Waterways as a Goole based Compartment Boat tug. She was used to pull Tom Puddings (interlocking modular barges) from Yorkshire coal mines to the Aire and Calder Navigation to Goole. The tugs pulled the Tom Puddings to the Compartment Boat Hoists in Goole Docks, and then the hoist would lift them up and tip the coal into ships. When the Tom Puddings stopped operating in 1987, WHELDALE was sold to Hargreaves and used as a push-pull tug.

In 1997, WHELDALE was purchased by the Yorkshire Waterways Museum from Cawood - Hargreaves for its collection. She has been restored and runs trips into Goole Docks for Museum visitors, as well as travelling to be displayed at festivals in Yorkshire. She is the last remaining Tom Pudding tug in complete, original working order. She operates with an original jebus (No. 3 circa 1890), and it is intended that she will run exhibition trips with the Museum's three Tom Puddings once conservation of them is complete.