Name Ash | National Historic Ships

Certificate no 1645

Status Registered

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Details

Function Cargo Vessel

Subfunction Narrow Boat

Location Birmingham

Vessel type Butty

Current use Commercial Activity

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Info required No

Construction

Builder Yarwood, W J & Sons Ltd, Northwich

Built in 1935

Hull material

Rig None

Number of decks 1

Number of masts 0

Propulsion Towed

Primary engine type None

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam

6.98 feet (2.13 m)

Depth

4.00 feet (1.22 m)

Length: Overall

71.44 feet (21.79 m)

Tonnage: Gross

0.00

Air Draft

To be confirmed

History

ASH is a ‘tree class’ narrowboat butty, built by W. J. Yarwood & Sons Ltd. at Northwich on 9 August 1936 and delivered to the Erewash Canal Carrying Company on 7 October 1935. She was registered with the Municipal Borough of Loughborough on 1 January 1948 and was transferred to the British Transport Commission, London. She was allocated to the South Eastern Division Carrying Fleet on 1 October 1953 and was then taken on by British Waterways on 1 January 1963. ASH was later sold to Nigel and Di Carter who converted her to a residential boat. In their ownership, she was based at Cowley Lock on the Grand Union Canal. Around 1972, she was sold to Stroudwater Cruises Ltd., Gloucester and in 1974 she was bought by the Birmingham & Midland Canal Carrying Company.