Name Dory

DORY is a narrowboat, built in 1934 by Fellows Morton & Clayton as boat number 315, of the "Josher" class. She carries a Bolinder semi-diesel engine, said to date from 1912. She is fully sheeted in front of the back cabin.

In 1949 DORY was purchased by the British Transport Commission, North West Division fleet. In 1951 she was converted to a butty, together with DACE, by partially rebuilding the stern. In 1963 she passed to the British Waterways Board, and by 1965 had been transferred to the maintenance fleet. By 1980 she had sunk and lay abandoned.

In 1993 DORY was acquired by the Bath Stone Company and renamed ELAINE, after the wife of the company's owner. She was restored by the Warwickshire Flyboat Company at Stockton as a cargo carrying motor boat, her original stern shape reinstated, and was fitted with an Armstrong Siddeley AS2 engine. According to the current owner, it was during this period that DORY carried bath stone for the rebuilding of Windsor Castle following its 1992 fire. In 1996 the boat passed into private ownership and the name reverted to DORY. She has since been maintained as a cargo carrying boat, and in 2021 won the HNBC Hemelryk Award.

DORY is now owned by L & S. Wain, who purchased her in 2024. She is taken to historic boat shows around England, where the crew stay aboard in the back cabin.