Name Aspull

Built as a canal icebreaker, ASPULL's construction is of oak with pitch pine frames and vertical oak planking and she is carvel built – the last remaining recognisable example with unique vertical planking. Icebreakers were used on the canals by being towed by a team of horses and rocked from side to side. Her original owner was the British Waterways Board and she worked on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

She was acquired by the Boat Museum in 1978 and is preserved out of the water at Ellesmere Port. The structure is in poor condition and the plan is to preserve half the craft for indoor exhibit.