Birdlip

Birdlip

The remains viewed from Matson

Specification
Birdlip
LPB Identification No. 57 DRM Identification No. N/A AJP Identification No. N/A
Source (LPB)(GF)(GRO(JP)(CW))
Name P.o.R Description Dates
Birdlip Gloucester 6/17 Steel barge 1915-1972
Official No. 136030 Code N/A
Builders Robert Cock & Sons, Richmond Dock, Appledore (yard number171)
Dimensions Length 84.8 ft Breath 18.4 ft Depths 4.6 ft

Tonnage – ( ) Gross 59.04 ton Net 56.04 ton B.D

Engines By H.P. None
Beached date C. 1972
Beached by Capt Oliver Powell, Jimmy Common, Bob Green, Dick Woodward
Miscellaneous

Master in 7th May 1917 - Thomas Rigby

Seen on the bank in the November 1972 aerial photograph

First Owners Chadborn Son & Taylor (6th June 1917)
Changes

Mousell Chadbourn & Co, Gloucester (36)

British Waterways Board (1962)

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