Name Bargus

Designed and built for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company by Harland and Wolff in Woolwich, London, BARGUS is a Small Woolwich Star Class boat. Delivered in November 1935 with her butty BETELGEUSE she worked for the company until 1948, when she was transferred to British Waterways on Nationalisation, and was at some point sold to the Anderton Canal Carrying Company.

In 1969 she was part converted for use as a pleasure boat by J Pogson in Middlewich. She was then fitted with her Lister HA3 diesel. In 1971 she was purchased by D Tunbridge of London, who cruised her throughout the area until 1977 when she became permanently moored at Little Venice, London. In 1982, she was purchased as a share boat based in Milton Keynes, and remained there until 2016, when she was purchased by her current owner, who already owned BETELGEUSE, her original butty pair, who then reconverted her for cargo carrying. She traded coal, gas and diesel up to 2023, when both BARGUS and BETELGEUSE began being used as pleasure boats.