Fal

Welded all steel butty boat 71’6” x 7’0”

Built EC Jones & Son (Brentford) Ltd

7/1960 Delivered to British Transport Waterways, SE Division Carrying Fleet

23/9/1960 Registered Rickmansworth No 213

1/1/1962 Transferred to British Waterways Board

c1963/4 Sold to Tardebigge Boat Co

Boat chopped in two and made into two hire cruisers

Bow Section Made into 52ft hire cruiser BARRACUDA with transom stern

1968 Sold to Dartline Cruisers, Bunbury

7/1978 Sold to private ownership

2001 Extended to 68ft with conventional motor boat stern and renamed FAL

c2018 Back cabin removed and stern remodelled as cruiser style

Index No 66470

There was an article about THE FAL/BARRACUDA in Canal Boat magazine in November 2018.

Stern Section Made into 40ft hire cruiser SEEKER, later renamed SWORDFISH

1968 Sold to Dartline Cruisers, Bunbury

7/1978 Sold to private ownership

No further record of this boat

Current whereabouts or whether still in existence unknown