Registration number
399
Status
Archived
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Details
Function
Cargo Vessel
Subfunction
Narrow Boat
Location
Morcombe
Archive reason
No longer meet criteria
Current use
Museum based
Available to hire
No
Available for excursions
No
Construction
Builder
Fellows, Morton & Clayton, Uxbridge
Built in
1946
Hull material
Wood
Rig
None
Number of decks
1
Propulsion
Motor
Number of engines
1
Boiler type
None
Boilermaker
None
Dimensions
Breadth: Beam
6.98 feet
(2.13m)
Depth
3.50 feet
(1.07m)
Length: Overall
70.95 feet
(21.64m)
History
Built in 1946 at Uxbridge, CHILTERN is a wooden narrowboat of carvel construction. Her original owners were Fellows Morton & Clayton, for whom she worked as a cargo vessel. She is now preserved out of the water at The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port.
Sources
Brouwer, Norman J, International Register of Historic Ships, Anthony Nelson, pp143, Edition 2, 1993
The Boat Museum, The Boat Museum
Own this vessel?
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