Rye

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

Built EC Jones & Son (Brentford) Ltd

11/1961 Delivered to British Transport Waterways, SE Division Carrying Fleet

5/12/1961 Registered Rickmansworth No 225

1/1/1962 Transferred to British Waterways Board

19/1/1965 Sold to Thames Conservancy maintenance, Sunbury Section, fleet no A1215

1982 Sold to Horseboat Charter, operating as horse-drawn trip boat initially at Ellesmere Port (Easter 1982), having been converted by Braunston Canal

Services; later (Summer 1982) operating on the Ashby Canal until about 1990

No further information until:

By 2012 Motorised and full length cabin conversion fitted. It is interesting to note that the engine was fitted to the former bow, with the original stern now becoming the bow!

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