Buckden (1936 Narrowboat)
Location: Northwich, Cheshire
Guide Price: £70,000 ono
www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/register/1637/buckden
HISTORY:
Town Class Large Woolwich narrowboat built by Harland & Wolff Ltd., Woolwich, for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company Ltd (GUCCC). She carried cargo for the GUCCC until 1948 and then, after nationalisation, was transferred into the British Waterways Fleet until 1963.
She briefly became a houseboat but was subsequently restored for carrying again in the 1980s, carrying occasionally for the present owners since 1996. She often tows the historic flyboat Saturn.
SPEC/ CONDITION:
BUCKDEN has been well maintained by her just two ownerships in the last fifty years and is in cargo carrying condition. She has full running gear and her original National DM2 diesel engine installation. Measurements: 71’ 6” x 7’0”.
Under current 28 year ownership, she has had comprehensive platework repairs mostly by Brinklow, Ian Kemp and Tim Leach, and comprehensive engine and gearbox works by Tim Leach and Tim Wood. The new wooden cabin was built to an exceptionally high standard at Brinklow by Rex Wain and Adrian Polglase, with every piece of timber epoxy primed on all faces before fixing in a king’s ransom of Sikaflex, with the new riveted engine room by Steve Priest, all carefully researched for original Harland & Wolff detail.
Unusually for these vessels, she has now been restored to ‘as built’ form and detail, except for her current owners’ livery. Thus she has her boarded and framed wooden cabin with riveted engine room, high pigeon box, removable liner funnel, electric klaxon, wooden stern deck (in teak) with closed weeps, etc. Her cabin has full traditional fittings, including a solid fuel range. C21 comforts include electric start, a very slightly enlarged cross-bed, a door from cabin to engine room, and a gas installation for summer use.
If you are interested in becoming the new owner of BUCKDEN, please click the vessel record link at the top of the page to see more images.
Enquiries to John and Sue Yates at h.johnyates@gmail.com or on 07889 808165
Zone North