Registration number 2389
Status Archived
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DARBY stern view
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Details

Function Cargo Vessel
Subfunction Barge
Location Barnstaple
Vessel type Barge - Bristol Tar
Archive reason More information required
Current use Ongoing conservation
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Cock, Robert & Sons, Appledore
Built in 1903
Hull material Steel
Rig None
Number of decks 1
Propulsion Motor
Number of engines 1
Primary engine type Inboard diesel
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Air Draft
10.66 feet (3.25m)
Breadth: Beam
15.00 feet (4.58m)
Depth
3.00 feet (0.92m)
Length: Overall
74.00 feet (22.57m)

History

DARBY is a Bristol Tar Barge of steel plate construction and has a Perkins T6354.4 diesel engine. She was built in 1903 by Robert Cock & Sons of Appledore in Devon. Her working life until the late 1960s was as a tar barge in the Bristol and Gloucester area for the Bristol and West Tar Distillery. In 2010, DARBY was being converted to a houseboat, based on the River Yeo in Devon.

 

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Key dates

  • 1903

    Built by R Cock of Appledore, Devon as a Bristol Tar Barge on the Gloucester Canal network.
  • 1903 - C1965

     Worked as a Tar Barge in the Bristol and Gloucester area
  • 1965

    Taken over by the British Steel Corporation
  • C1975

    Put up a creek where she filled with mud
  • 2003

    Found by Adam Giffard of Barnstable who started converting her to a Severn Trow to cruise the inland waterways of continental Europe.  He became ill and had to sell her uncompleted
  • 2010

    Bought by present owners
  • 2011

    Being converted to a Houseboat
  • 2015

    In use as a houseboat

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