Recorded in 1930 Mercantile List
Recorded in 1951 Mercantile List
Located in Fred Rowbotham photo 1956
Graham Farr 23rd June 1956
Located in aerial photo looking North 1957
Located in aerial photo looking towards Pine End 1957
Located and broken up in 13th May 1967 Norman Andrews photo
Located in Colin Green 1996 chart

Lydney (JM) (CG 1954 & 56) (Aerial 1957) (Sea Breezes Aug 1956)

Doug Bennet

Name Ripple
Official No 105406
Built 1895 Gloucester
Net Reg tons 30
Signal hoist none
Registered 1945

Graham Farr Index Card

Name                          P.O.R                          Description                             Dates
Ripple                          Gloucester 5/95           Tw Wd Sp                               1895 -1954
Gloucester 9/36           Sc decked
Gloucester 2/51           Screw (reg as such 51)

Dimensions     (1895) L. 71.15 B. 14.4 D. 5.45Tonnage – (1895) G 41.28  N 30.01 B.D
(1927) L. 71.15 B. 14.4 D. 5.45Tonnage – (       ) G             N           B.D
(1936) L. 71.15 B. 14.4 D. 5.45Tonnage – (1936) G 41.28  N 30.01 B.D
(1944) L. 71.15 B. 14.4 D. 5.45Tonnage – (       ) G             N           B.D
                        (1951) L. 71.05 B. 24.4 D. 5.45Tonnage – (1951) G 43.95  N 26.89 B.D

Builders          Gloucester, Fredrick Charles Hipwood
Engines           Two engines installed             By George Head after 1936
H.P. 9
Miscellaneous
O.N.    105406            Code

First Owners                          21.11.95 (64) Fredrick Charles Hipwood, Gloucester (96 97)
Changes                                 16.6.97 (64) Eliza Hipwood (w), Gloucester.
16.6.97 (64) The Salt Union, London (08)
23.8.19 (64) William Hydan Turner, Bristol
22.8.12 (68) George Head & Co., Ltd., Bristol (13)
Avon & Severn Lighterage Co., Ltd.,
21.7.19 (64) Benjamin Perry & Sons Ltd., Bristol (34 36)
R/A as dumb barge
R.C. 26.11.36
1946 George Head (jr) Bristol (converted to dk)
Bristol Towages Ltd, Bristol
1950 Walter Butt, Saul

Photographs in
Lloyds Class
Fate    
Now bge seen 22.9.35
Seen at Saul yard Aug 1951
May 1954 towed to Lydney for breakwater
Seen at Lydney 23.6.56 (GF photo)

Notes
Glos 5/21.11.95 1 dk f&a, 1, Sp,sq,cvl – -, wd, open tw (dim)

Graham Farr via Robin Craig Archive
Extant in 1953

Ripple             Wd.Sc.Tw                  1895-               Gloster
1 In Gloster basin, bow view                                                  1951 (sm)
2 On bank at Lydney for conservation (ahead is Wasp ON 41402 Llantony and Onyx) 23.6.56 (sm)

Donald Fowler

Furthermore stated that it soon became apparent the Lydney’s dock wall and adjacent river bank were also prone to erosion and this resulted in the British Waterways abandonment, of 3- 4 hulks on the foreshore to act as breakwaters, including the Gloucester registered lighters  Ripple, Llantony and the Wasp.

Gloucester Records Office

Gloucester Records Office

D4292/1/9 D/08
Ripple (71)
105406 Glos 1895 F Hipwood  RC  26.11.1936

D4292/1/9 D09
Ripple) (76)
RC 21.2.1951

D4292/1/9
Ripple (folio131)
vessel registered anew 21.2.1951

MNL 1930

Name Ripple
Official No 105406
Reg Gloucester (B)
Rig Sloop
Built Gloucester 1895
Reg Ton 30
Owners Benjamin Perry and Sons LTD 11-12 Temple Street, Bristol
Fredrick C Burgess same address

MNL 1951

Name Ripple
Official No 105406
Reg Gloucester (B)
Rig None
Built Gloucester 1895
Reg Ton 30
Owners George Head 2 Westbone Avenue, Kenysham, Somerset

Bob Marrows

Paul,
The three postcard size photo’s of trows at Gloucester Docks were delivered yesterday.  Unfortunately, none are of high quality, but all have since received some Photoshop treatment.

The third trow proved not to be HIGRE but instead the former Wich (* LPB Trow) barge RIPPLE.  All three photographs are noted as having been taken in September 1950.

Additional notes on the backs of the prints read as follows:

J & AR – Jacob & Abraham Rice
Built 1887 by Evans of Saul
Abandoned on the mud at Sharpness April 1951

RIPPLE – Severn Trow open
Built 1895 at Gloucester

WASP
Built 1895

Gordon Mote

Name Ripple
Official No 105406
Built 1895 Gloucester
Owner The Salt Union, London
Port of Reg Gloucester
Net Reg tons 30
Fate A Severn Trow. Hulked at Lydney 1954

Fred Rowbottom photos

Working for the Severn River Board in 1951 Mr Walter Butt’s trow, the Ripple, using an engine, comes alongside a berth, just below Llanthony weir to load stone for revetting the riverbank at Hempsted below Lower Parting.

Mr Walter Butt’s engine trow “Ripple” delivers stone for the revetment of the Severn Bank at Hempsted in 1951.

Trow “Ripple” mooring at the river board’s loading berth at Llanthony – prior to conveying stone for revetment in the Minsterworth Area

The trow “Ripple” discharging stone for the Severn River Authority at The Strand, Westbury-on-Severn

Having used the old trow “Ripple” on several jobs for the Severn River Board Mr Butt dumped it on the foreshore at Lydney behind his other barge, the “Wasp”, which is in the foreground.  Both were soon completely broken up.

Plates from Fred Rowbottom Archive

Len Williams
Port of Bristol Warehousing Manager
Aged 82

LW recalls that the former trow Ripple was a well known and frequent visitor to Bristol and is now beached at Lydney.  Furthermore Fred Rowbottom’s book The Severn Bore shows a plate of the Ripple coming into Llanthony Wear.

M Watson Harbour Master

Mr M Watson’s hand written entries in his Harbour Masters work books of 1952 -1955 in which he
details the following: 

1954 3 – 4 – 5 May Barges put into position on river front to prevent further erosion
1954 June Barges placed on river bank, work party Gardner, Watkins, Smith Vine & Prosser.
1954 Aug Barges placed on river bank work party Gardner, Watkins, Smith & Vine.

1954 Sept Two old mud barges placed on river bank work party Gardner, Watkins, Smith & Vin