Kellingley | National Historic Ships

Registration number 3805

Status Registered

paula.palmer

Details

Function Service Vessel

Subfunction Tug

Location Gravesend

Vessel type Canal Tug

Current use Private use

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Dunston, Richard, Thorne

Built in 1958

Hull material Steel

Rig None

Number of decks 2

Propulsion Motor

Number of engines 1

Primary engine type Diesel

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam

14.76 feet (4.50m)

Depth

6.10 feet (1.86m)

Air Draft

12.07 feet (3.68m)

Length: Overall

68.24 feet (20.80m)

Tonnage: Gross

80.00

History

KELLINGLEY is a Tom Pudding Tug, the name given to tug boats on the Aire and Calder Navigation, introduced in 1863 and used until 1985. She was built between 1958 and 1960 by Richard Dunston of Thorne as part of a commission from the British Ministry of Transport for seven tugs. Of these seven, three remain: KELLINGLEY, HATFIELD, and WHELDALE.

KELLINGLEY was used along the Aire and Calder Navigation transporting coal from the open cast collieries of the South Yorkshire Coalfield to the Port of Goole. The vessel still has her original 3-cylinder Lister Blackstone engine.

Key dates

1958
Building starts as part of a fleet of 7 Tom Pudding tugs for the British Ministry of Transport
1960
KELLINGLEY is launched to work on the Aire and Calder Navigation transporting coal
2012
Was asked to participate in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations