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Effingham

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

Built Isaac Pimblott & Sons Ltd, Northwich

3/1959 Delivered to British Transport Waterways, NW Division Carrying Fleet

17/3/1959 Registered Northwich No 111

1964 Hired to Willow Wren Canal Transport Services Ltd (NW Division)

1967 Hired to Anderton Canal Carrying Co Ltd, Northwich

c1971 Transferred to maintenance fleet, northern Shropshire Union and Trent & Mersey area

By 2007 Sunk & derelict on Montgomery Canal

2010 Sold to private ownership and restored to original condition over several years, principally by Langley Mill Boatyard and PJ Barber Boatbuilder Ltd

Joint winner of the HNBC John Hemelryk Award 2016

 

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