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A converted working narrowboat, Clypeus, opens up leaving Penton Hook Lock heading upstream past the weir. Clypeus is number 28 in the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company fleet, being one of 12 iron composite pairs of Star Class boats built by Yarwoods of Northwich in 1935.
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In 1983 Braidbar Boats was established as a narrowboat building business in Lord Vernon’s Wharf on the Macclesfield Canal at Poynton, Cheshire. [2] The company produces around 7 quality narrowboats each year [3] and has won many awards, including Favourite Boat in Show at the Crick Boat Show in 2000, 2007 and 2018.
Eustace is an historic narrow boat built for the Wolverhampton-based company Thomas Bantock & Co. for railway transhipment work in the English Black Country.In the 1950s a cabin was added and Alfred Matty & Co of Deepfields, Coseley converted the hull to a spoon dredger for canal clearance work.
Kildare is an un-powered butty boat constructed with wrought iron sides and an elm bottom. She was built for Fellows Morton & Clayton around 1913 by Braithwaite & Kirk of West Bromwich to be towed behind a powered craft like President.
Historic narrowboat Bessie at the Black Country Living Museum. Bessie is a historic, single ended riveted iron day boat, built in 1895 [1] for the Hartshill Iron Company. It is now owned by the Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, West Midlands, England, where it is based.
Historic narrowboat Birchills at the Black Country Living Museum. Birchills is a historic, ‘Joey’ boat with a small day cabin, built in 1953 by Ernest Thomas of Walsall. [1] [2] Birchills was one of the last wooden day boats made [2] and was used to carry coal to Birchills Power Station [1] and Wolverhampton Power Station. [2]
Type XIX - was a project for an unarmed transport U-boat, based on the Type XB mine layer. Type XX - another project for a transport U-boat based on the Type XB; it would have had a shorter hull than the Type XB, but had a greater beam and draft. Thirty Type XX U-boats were laid down in 1943, but construction stopped in 1944.