Name Alsager

Previous names

Rollo

Certificate no 2778

Status Registered

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Details

Function Cargo Vessel

Subfunction Narrow Boat

Location Braunston

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 1934

Hull material Steel

Rig None

Number of decks 1

Number of masts 0

Propulsion Towed

Primary engine type None

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Length: Overall

70.00 feet (21.34 m)

Breadth: Beam

7.00 feet (2.13 m)

Depth

2.00 feet (0.61 m)

Air Draft

6.17 feet (1.88 m)

Tonnage: Gross

0.00

History

ALSAGER is a narrow boat butty of steel riveted construction built in1934 by Yarwoods of Northwich. She was built for the London Midland & Scottish Railway. Used for interchange basin traffic in Birmingham as Rollo LMS No.4, she was sold to British Waterways in 1955 for conversion into a long distance butty. She was later relegated to maintenance work and then sold to private owners.

Key dates

1934
Built by Yarwoods of Northwich
1955
Sold to British Waterways for conversion to long distance butty, back cabin added
2014
After various private owners, vessel is now on the Midlands Canal in commercial use