Prince

18/3/1926       Converted to motor boat, with Bolinder 15hp NE type engine, at Saltley Dock

19/10/1926     Gauged GJC No 12145

20/2/1931       Re-Registered at Birmingham No 1534

11/1941           Sold to Oxford Cooperative Society

1949                Sold to private owners, converted to hotel boat and operated as Waterborne Tours with butty MAFFEKING from 1951 to 1962; it is the earliest narrow boat to be used as a hotel boat that still exists

c1954              Bolinder 1052 engine fitted

1977                Hotel boat cabin conversion removed

1979/80           Restored at Malkins Bank

NOTE: There is another Prince (Associated Canal Carriers Ltd/GUCCC)