Scales

Original intended pairing with motor SEXTANS

30/9/1942       Passed to Grand Union Canal maintenance fleet

1/1/1948         Passed to BTC (D&IWE)

1/10/1953       Passed to BTC (BTW)

1/1/1963         Passed to BWB

c1963/4           Sold to L&T Construction, Harpenden

1969                Sold to Shropshire Union Canal Society via Alan Picken, who had found the boat derelict and sunk in Northampton

                        Converted to Passenger Trip Boat based at Welshpool and renamed POWIS PRINCESS. The trip boat conversion was unusual in that it was made from the cut-off upper section of two London Transport double-decker buses, and was fitted with a jet propulsion system

1979                Out of service and advertised for sale initially as a trip boat, and later as a bare bull, by ME Braine Boatbuilders on behalf of SUCS

1984                Advertised for sale again by Lorenz Canal Services as an uncompleted restoration project and fitted with a forecabin

                        Subsequently sold to private ownership and restored

Early 1990s    Fitted with under-cloth cabin conversion

Early 2021      In a derelict condition and cut into sections to remove it by road

2022                The sections were reunited and restored as a full-length butty

Note:               SCALES is often stated as being the original identity of Wyvern Shipping Co’s ELIZABETH.  This is the result of ELIZABETH having been bought from British Waterways as an unnamed butty, and SCALES was thought to be the likely original name.  However, it has subsequently been demonstrated that ELIZABETH was, in fact, originally TRIAGULUM.