Registration number 2259
Status Registered
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Southern Cross - starboard bow looking aft
Southern Cross - Starboard side quarter
Southern Cross - stern view
Southern Cross - starboard quarter
Southern Cross - taking a school party on the Regents Canal when she was named Water Nymph
Southern Cross bow facing
Southern Cross on the canal
On the Canal
On the Canal
On the Canal
stern view
bow view
port side view
on the canal
on the canal
on the canal

Previous names

  • 1959 Water Nymph

Details

Function Cargo Vessel
Subfunction Narrow Boat
Location Weedon
Current use Ongoing conservation
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Harland & Wolff Ltd, Woolwich
Built in 1935
Hull material Iron
Rig None
Number of decks 1
Propulsion Motor
Number of engines 1
Primary engine type Inboard diesel
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
7.00 feet (2.14m)
Depth
3.00 feet (0.92m)
Length: Overall
71.00 feet (21.66m)

History

Built in 1935 by Harland & Wolff, Woolwich, SOUTHERN CROSS is a narrow boat of iron construction with a diesel engine by Lister, model HA3. Built for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company, she was passed into the pleasure craft fleet of British Waterways in the 1950s and was used as a trip boat on the Regents Canal in London. After passing into private ownership in 1978 she was fully converted and used as a houseboat based on the river chess. But, in later years, she was left uncared for. Her previous owner de-converted the boat in 2008 with the original intention of restoring her back to her 1950s trip boat appearance. She was sold to her present owner in 2011 who has completely re-restored the boat in order to use her as a carrying boat.

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