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Registration number
2044
Status
Registered
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Details
Function
Cargo Vessel
Subfunction
Narrow Boat
Location
Northwich
Vessel type
Motor Canal Boat - Tanker
Current use
Private use
Available to hire
No
Available for excursions
No
Construction
Builder
Fellows, Morton & Clayton, Uxbridge
Built in
1937
Hull material
Wood
Rig
None
Number of decks
1
Propulsion
Motor
Number of engines
1
Primary engine type
Semi diesel
Boiler type
None
Boilermaker
None
Dimensions
Breadth: Beam
7.10 feet
(2.17m)
Depth
3.20 feet
(0.98m)
Length: Overall
70.90 feet
(21.62m)
History
Built in 1937 by FMC at Uxbridge, SPEY is a motor canal boat of timber construction with a Bolinder semi-diesel engine of 15 nhp. SPEY was built for the crude oil traffic between Stanlow and Oldbury and run by Thomas Clayton of Oldbury. In 1956 she moved on to the gas oil traffic. By the 1960s, this traffic was falling off and she was laid up. She was bought by Alan Jones in 1964 and used as a pleasure craft. Her present owners purchased her in 1971 and she is one of a small number of wooden narrow boats left which have not been radically altered or rebuilt since coming out of commercial operation.
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