Lighter No. 9

The remains

LPB Identification No. 46		DRM Identification No. N/A	AJP Identification No. N/A
Source	(LPB)(DW)(MN)(JE)

Name	P.o.R	Description	Dates
Lighter No. 9	Bristol 18/2	Steel barge	1902 - c.1965
Official No. 114878		Code N/A
Builders A. W. Robertson & Co, London
Dimensions	Length 70.1ft	Breath 20.4ft	Depths 6.5ft
Tonnage – (1941) Gross 76 ton Net Not recorded
Engines By H.P. None
Beached date	C. 1972
Beached by	Capt Oliver Powell, Jimmy Common, Bob Green, Dick Woodward, Russell Smith
Miscellaneous	R.C Sept 1954 no longer required John Perkins diary entry 20th March 1961 from Gloucester to Worcester John Perkins Diary No 9 Bristol 114878 pp 1126 Memory of Jack Evens rail RPO 864/34,56,57 Ray Savage recalls that one of the steel hoppers buried on the wall was an ex G. T. Beard barge that was converted into mud hopper No.9
First Owners	Basil Pym Ellis, Westminster, (Avonmouth New Dock Works) (08)
Changes	G.T. Beard (1929) Ltd., Gloucester (36) British Transport Commission (1962) British Waterways Board (1963)