Registration number 2044
Status Registered
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Spey under way - starboard quarter
Narrowboat Spey leaving Irlam locks, Manchester Ship Canal - Photo Comp 2011 entry
Spey looking aft
Photography image entry 2015
spey on the Wolverhampton locks
Photo Competition 2023 - Narrowboat Spey at Worsley on the Bridgewater canal by John Eyres

Details

Function Cargo Vessel
Subfunction Narrow Boat
Location Northwich
Vessel type Motor Canal Boat - Tanker
Current use Private use
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Fellows, Morton & Clayton, Uxbridge
Built in 1937
Hull material Wood
Rig None
Number of decks 1
Propulsion Motor
Number of engines 1
Primary engine type Semi diesel
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
7.10 feet (2.17m)
Depth
3.20 feet (0.98m)
Length: Overall
70.90 feet (21.62m)

History

Built in 1937 by FMC at Uxbridge, SPEY is a motor canal boat of timber construction with a Bolinder semi-diesel engine of 15 nhp. SPEY was built for the crude oil traffic between Stanlow and Oldbury and run by Thomas Clayton of Oldbury. In 1956 she moved on to the gas oil traffic. By the 1960s, this traffic was falling off and she was laid up. She was bought by Alan Jones in 1964 and used as a pleasure craft. Her present owners purchased her in 1971 and she is one of a small number of wooden narrow boats left which have not been radically altered or rebuilt since coming out of commercial operation.

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