Registration number 1642
Status Registered
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YEOFORD - with ASH leaving lock. Stern from starboard quarter looking forward.
YEOFORD - interior of cargo hold converted to camping space.

Details

Function Cargo Vessel
Subfunction Barge
Location Birmingham
Current use Commercial Activity
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No
Info required Yes
Web address https://www.davidkempboatbuilding.co.uk

Construction

Builder Yarwood, W J & Sons Ltd, Northwich
Built in 1937
Rig None
Number of decks 1
Propulsion Motor
Number of engines 1
Primary engine type Inboard
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
6.98 feet (2.13m)
Depth
4.00 feet (1.22m)
Length: Overall
71.44 feet (21.79m)

History

YEOFORD is a narrowboat, built by W. J. Yarwood & Sons Ltd. for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company Ltd. (GUCCCL) at Northwich in 1937. She is one of the 'town class' and was paired with the butty YEOVIL. Her fleet number was 186 and she was registered at Coventry on 1 July 1937 as number 546. Following nationalisation in 1948, she was taken over by British Waterways. In 1965, she was sold to the Birmingham & Midlands Canal Carrying Company Ltd. who also used her for cargo carrying. YEOFORD’s interior has now been adapted for use as a camping boat, with twelve bunks, a kitchen and a toilet. She is one of the relatively few 'town class' narrowboats to survive in an original exterior form and is still operating as a traditional pair with the butty ARGON.

May 2024:  She is currently undergoing restoration at Dadford Wharf by Ian and David Kemp. The hull has been sympathetically restored and repainted in her British Waterways colours

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Key dates

  • 1937

    Built by W.J. Yarwood Ltd for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Co. Ltd
  • 1948

    Ownership tranferred to the British Transport Commission (Docks and Inland Waterways Executive)
  • 1965

    Sold to the Brirmingham and Midland Canal Carrying Company Ltd
  • 1999

    Converted for use as a camping boat with twelve bunks, an kitchen and toilet 

Sources

Faulkner, Alan H, The George & the Mary, Robert Wilson, 1973

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