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Registration number
3540
Status
Registered
paula.palmer
Previous names
- 1928 - 2018 BRENT
Details
Function
Cargo Vessel
Subfunction
Tug
Location
London
Vessel type
Canal Tug
Current use
Private use
Available to hire
No
Available for excursions
No
Info required
Yes
Construction
Builder
Bushell Brothers, Little Tring
Built in
1928
Hull material
Iron
Number of decks
1
Propulsion
Motor
Number of engines
1
Primary engine type
Diesel
Dimensions
Breadth: Beam
9.50 feet
(2.90m)
Depth
3.50 feet
(1.07m)
Length: Overall
40.00 feet
(12.19m)
History
The tug BRENT was built by the Bushell Brothers at their yard in Tring, but she is unusual in that she was not fitted out there. Her wooden hull was completed at the yard before she was then towed to the Grand Junction Canal Co's maintenance depot at Bulbourne for a 44hp Kromhout semi-diesel engine to be craned aboard and fitted. Tests followed on the Regent's Canal, with Charles and Joseph Bushell amongst those on board.
BRENT was used to pull trains of barges from the top of Hampstead Road Lock on the long level of the Regent's Canal and Paddington Arm. A feature much remarked upon at the time was that the exhaust, which was normally discharged vertically through silencers, could be diverted to emerge under water when passing through tunnels.
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