Name Clee

CLEE was the last of three wooden boats built for FMCat a cost of £972 - the other two being Chiltern and Clent. She was one of the new ‘Hill’ class intended to work in the company’s northern fleet based at Wolverhampton. However, these plans were short lived as FMC went into voluntary liquidation in 1948 and The Docks and Inland Waterways Executive purchased all of the companies craft and assets. Clee then moved into the NW division and carried on her operation there until she was sunk and abandoned in the Northernmost of two flashes near Anderton in 1957. There she lay preserved in the salt-rich water until November 1983 when she was refloated. 

This vessel was disposed of in 2021.