Hartshill Lady | National Historic Ships

Registration number 3763

Status Registered

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Details

Function Cargo Vessel

Subfunction Narrow Boat

Location Heyford

Vessel type Joey

Current use Private use

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Bantock, Thomas & Co, Wolverhampton

Built in 1910

Hull material Iron

Rig None

Number of decks 1

Propulsion Motor

Number of engines 1

Primary engine type Diesel

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam

6.92 feet (2.11m)

Depth

2.00 feet (0.61m)

Length: Overall

55.00 feet (16.76m)

History

HARTSHILL LADY was built at Bilston, Wolverhampton by Thomas Bantock & Co. circa 1910 as No. 118, an open joey originally 71ft, for the GWR fleet and working the BCN. She was one of Bantocks later boats having iron sides and baseplate (extant). She was shortened to 55' and registered no. 67956 sometime in the late 1970s with the iron sides and rubbing strake shaped to form a trad stern and fitted with a steel cabin and 'famco' bus windows.

She is fitted with an Armstrong Siddeley AS2 2 cylinder with Parsons D type gearbox thought to date from around 1952 previously from a Lifeboat. Her iron knees and sections of the chines were overplated in 2001 and sometime before this she had a steel 'shoe' fitted her entire length inside the baseplate. She was formerly based at Cowroast before mooring until recently at Aynho on the Oxford Canal. She is currently under ongoing restoration based in Oxford.