Registration number 1664
Status Registered
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Details

Function Cargo Vessel
Subfunction Barge
Location Northwich
Vessel type Butty
Current use Private use
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No
Info required Yes

Construction

Builder Braithwaite & Kirk, West Bromwich
Built in 1912
Hull material Iron
Rig None
Number of decks 1
Propulsion Towed
Primary engine type None
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
6.98 feet (2.13m)
Depth
2.98 feet (0.91m)
Length: Overall
70.46 feet (21.49m)

History

ILFORD is a narrowboat built by Braithwaite & Kirk of West Bromwich in 1912. Her fleet number was 269 and her Grand Union gauge number was 11878. She is currently registered on the Bridgewater Canal as B0283. She was owned by Fellows, Morton & Clayton Ltd. until 1945 and was then sold to the Manchester Ship Canal Company, who kept her until 1971.

Under the latter ownership, she was based on the Bridgewater Canal and operated as mudboat number two. ILFORD was subsequently sold to the Birmingham and Midland Canal Carrying Company for use as a work flat. In the late 1970s, she was briefly purchased by a private owner, before being discovered by the present owner in 1978.

She has since been restored to her original condition and all the wooden parts, including the bottoms and cabins, have been completely renewed to Inland Waterways Association design. ILFORD has a carrying capacity of approximately thirty tons. Her hull is composite with riveted wrought-iron sides and an elm bottom. Her shape is that of a typical butty.

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