Name |
P.o.R |
Description |
Dates |
Matson |
Gloucester 1/25 |
Steel barge |
1924-1972 |
Official No. 140471 |
Code N/A |
Builders Robert Cock & Sons, Richmond Dock, Appledore (yard number195) |
Dimensions |
Length 84.8 ft |
Breath 18.7 ft |
Depths 4.4 ft |
Tonnage – (1924) Gross 57.51 ton Net 54.51 ton B.D |
Tonnage – (1952) Gross 82.84 ton Net 79.84 ton B.D |
Engines By H.P. None |
Beached date |
C. 1972 |
Beached by |
Capt Jimmy Common, Bob Green, Dick Woodward |
Miscellaneous |
Master in 13th January 1925 – Albert Flack
Raised hatchways fitted c. 1952 - 23.33 ton capacity added
Master Sammy Meadow
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 Transport Commission (1962)
British Waterways Board (1963) |