Registration number 2778
Status Registered
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Previous names

  • Rollo

Details

Function Cargo Vessel
Subfunction Narrow Boat
Location Braunston
Vessel type Narrowboat - Butty
Current use Commercial Activity
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Yarwood, W J & Sons Ltd, Northwich
Built in 1934
Hull material Steel
Rig None
Number of decks 1
Propulsion Towed
Primary engine type None
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Length: Overall
70.00 feet (21.34m)
Breadth: Beam
7.00 feet (2.13m)
Depth
2.00 feet (0.61m)
Air Draft
6.17 feet (1.88m)

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

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