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Mercia

Originally a BCN spoon dredger working No 2 District.

16/09/1885 - paperwork shows gauging at Tipton as BCNco fleet number 118, but may be even older

Worked as a dredger until c1937 when dredging equipment was removed

Renamed Ohm at some time

1970 - shortened to work with a Bantam tug and stayed in maintenance until she was deemed beyond economic repair around 2009

2010 - sold in BW auction into private ownership, renamed Mercia


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