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

Built EC Jones & Son (Brentford) Ltd

8/1961 Delivered to British Transport Waterways, SE Division Carrying Fleet

18/9/1961 Registered Rickmansworth No 221

1/1/1962 Transferred to British Waterways Board

11/6/1965 Sold to Thames Conservancy maintenance, Oxford Section, fleet no A1214

2009 Sold to Rothen Group 

      Bow section 

      converted to motor boat for use on maintenance contract work. Index No 514922

      Stern section

      The discarded butty stern was used as the bow of a 31ft tug/motor boat named YEW (which is WEY backwards)

       Still (2016) a bare hull

 

Wey, June 2024 (pic R Prettyman)
Wey, June 2024 (pic R Prettyman)
Wey 2021 (pic R Booth)
Wey 2021 (pic R Booth)
Wey (pic R Prettyman)
Yew 2016 (pic R Booth)
Yew 2016 (pic R Booth)