Brent | National Historic Ships

Registration number 3540

Status Registered

paula.palmer

Previous names

1928 - 2018 BRENT

Details

Function Cargo Vessel

Subfunction Tug

Location London

Vessel type Canal Tug

Current use Private use

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Info required Yes

Construction

Builder Bushell Brothers, Little Tring

Built in 1928

Hull material Iron

Number of decks 1

Propulsion Motor

Number of engines 1

Primary engine type Diesel

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam

9.50 feet (2.90m)

Depth

3.50 feet (1.07m)

Length: Overall

40.00 feet (12.19m)

History

The tug BRENT was built by the Bushell Brothers at their yard in Tring, but she is unusual in that she was not fitted out there. Her wooden hull was completed at the yard before she was then towed to the Grand Junction Canal Co's maintenance depot at Bulbourne for a 44hp Kromhout semi-diesel engine to be craned aboard and fitted. Tests followed on the Regent's Canal, with Charles and Joseph Bushell amongst those on board. She now has a 1974 Perkins 6.354 engine.

BRENT was used to pull trains of barges from the top of Hampstead Road Lock on the long level of the Regent's Canal and Paddington Arm. A feature much remarked upon at the time was that the exhaust, which was normally discharged vertically through silencers, could be diverted to emerge under water when passing through tunnels.

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