Aries

Originally paired with butty no 217, Ariel.

1944: sold to LMS as maintenance boat (Trent & Mersey?)

1948: passed to BW maintenance fleet on nationalisation 

HNBOC has little record of this boat, was still with BW in 1963 but sold by 1966. 

Extant as unconverted motor boat at Ellesmere Port Museum.

Photographs courtesy of R Booth