All steel welded butty boat 70’0” x 6’10”

Built Isaac Pimblott & Sons Ltd, Northwich (Yard No 781)

2/1959 Delivered to British Transport Waterways, NW Division Carrying Fleet

17/2/1959 Registered Northwich No 108

1965 Sold to private ownership, motorised (retaining its original cabin) and full length cabin conversion fitted by J Yates, Norton Canes; name changed to ADMIRAL BENBOW

By 2011 Name reverted to BENBOW, and cabin rebuilt in steel

Still (2018) as described above

 

Benbow, 2002
Benbow, 2002, showing the unusual stern cockpit
Benbow 2018 (pic R Booth)
Benbow 2018 (pic R Booth)