c1970 Max Sinclair (best known as one of the campaigners for restoration of the Droitwich canals) bought an abandoned and sunk so-called "Mark 1 Bantock" boat near Cannock, which had for some years been used as a spoon dredger on the BCN. These boats are iron composite with an extra wooden bottom strake, generally believed to have been built in the period 1850 to around 1880. He raised it, took it to the Bumblehole boatyard in Netherton and chopped it in two.
Fore section was made into a 58ft motor boat which he named BALLINGER in memory of Charlie Ballinger of Gloucester, who was the last Number One.
Stern section Max's friend Albert Brooks converted it into another 52ft motor boat called Glenfield, although it was apparently named Talpa between 1976 and 1985.
