Registration number 3005
Status Registered
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Details

Function Cargo Vessel
Subfunction Barge
Location Knottingley
Vessel type Coal motor barge
Current use Private use
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Dunston, Richard, Thorne
Built in 1958
Hull material Steel
Propulsion Motor
Number of engines 1
Primary engine type Inboard diesel
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Length: Overall
85.00 feet (25.91m)
Breadth: Beam
16.50 feet (5.03m)
Depth
4.00 feet (1.22m)
Air Draft
12.00 feet (3.66m)
Tonnage: Gross
200.00

History

Hargreaves barge NO5 was built by Dunstons of Thorne in 1958 to carry coal to Ferrybridge B power station. There were 15 barges of the same specification built for this job all were built as dumb barges but with the capacity to receive an engine when the company changed from tug hauled dumb craft to self propelled vessels which happened to NO5 in the mid 1960s with the installation of the Lister JP3. In the 1980s they chose to remove the engines from some of their craft and fit more powerful units to four of the others enabling them to work as push tug pairs. NO5 however was the only one of the fleet to retain its original 42HP JP3 engine and worked on its own until the late 1980s as the last one of the fleet to be still operated.

The barge has undergone overplating work to the base plate in 2006 and the turn of the bilge in the early 1980s the original JP3 engine has been overhauled and re-built with a new crankshaft pistons and cylinder liners in 2007. The present houseboat conversion began in 2005 with sheeting over the hold in steel to the tops of the original coamings so as to retain the original lines of the barge when it was working. 

Significance

Hargreaves barge NO5 was built by Dunstons of Thorne in 1958 to carry coal to Ferrybridge B power station. NO5 retained its original 42HP JP3 engine and worked on its own until the late 1980s as the last one of the fleet to be still operated.

Key dates

  • 1958

    Built by Sunstons of Thorne for Hargreaves. 

  • 1960's

    Fitted with Lister JP3 

  • 1980's

    Finished work carrying coal fo Hargreaves to Ferrybridge B power station 

  • 1990's

    Sold to Wakefield Wharf 

  • 2005

    Sold to present owner for conversion to a houseboat 

  • 2005-2006

    Converted to houseboat 

  • 2006

    Hull repairs carried out to baseplate at John Harkers Slipway in Knottingley 

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