Name Ironclad

IRONCLAD is a Leeds & Liverpool long boat, built and launched in 1933 by W J Yarwoods and Sons, Northwich. She worked for H & R Ainscough, a firm of millers who had a fleet of iron motor and dumb boats to carry grain from Manchester, Birkenhead and Liverpool to Burscough and also a store at Parbold.  This traffic finished in 1961 and the vessel was sold to Albert Blundell and renamed CADELLIS after his family. The coal traffic to Trafford power station finished in 1972 and she was then operated by T & D Murrell on the London waterways until conversion for pleasure use and reversion to the original name. 

Currently located in London, the vessel is still in use as a pleasure craft and the original lines have not been altered.

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