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Name: Nansen II

Certificate number: 2073

Status:

Registered

Function:

Cargo Vessel

Sub Functional Area:

Narrow Boat

Type:

Tug

Location:

Birmingham, West Midlands, England

Current use:

Museum: operating

  • Length Overall:

    12.81 metres (42.00 feet)

  • Tonnage Not Known:

    0.00

  • Draught:

    0.92 metres (3.00 feet)

  • Beam:

    2.07 metres (6.80 feet)
Nansen II -

Web address

http://www.heritageworkingboats.org.uk

Builder

History

Built 1951 by W J Yarwood of Northwich, a narrowbeam tug of steel plate construction with a Lister HA3 diesel engine.

Built to haul trains of day boats from the colliery basins to factories in the Birmingham Canal Navigations. Also used as an icebreaker and canal maintenance craft. Later based at British Waterways regional workshop at Bradley and passed to the British Waterways Working Boat Project in 1999.

She is one of very few vessels commissioned by the Docks & Inland Waterways Executive and possible the only purpose built canal tug.

These brief histories are compiled from details supplied by vessel owners and enthusiasts and from various reference works. National Historic Ships would be grateful for any corrections of facts or additional information for inclusion. Please contact ron.ellis@nationalhistoricships.org.uk

Subsequent developments

None notified, please let us know if you have any additional information.

Previous names

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