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Details
Function
Cargo Vessel
Subfunction
Barge
Location
Barnstaple
Vessel type
Humber Keel
Current use
Commercial Activity
Available to hire
No
Available for excursions
No
Info required
No
Construction
Builder
Barraclough, James & Co.
Built in
1898
Hull material
Iron
Rig
Unknown
Number of decks
2
Number of masts
Propulsion
Motor
Number of engines
1
Primary engine type
Inboard diesel
Boiler type
None
Boilermaker
None
Dimensions
Breadth: Beam
17.50
feet
(5.33
m)
Tonnage: Gross
90.00
Length: Overall
74.00
feet
(22.56
m)
History
SAIRA built in Hull 1898 as a cargo barge also known as a 'Billy Boy'. Registered to Nettleton of Hull in 1900. Working barge on the Humber going up to leeds and up the Trent and York. She worked into the late sixties, running wheat to Yorkshire Ideal Mill at Selby, linseed to Barker Lee Smiths in Hull and coal from west Yorkshire down to Grimsby for Laportes.
Key dates
-
1898
Vessel built by James Barraclough and Co. in Hull
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