Name Centaur

CENTAUR was built circa 1890 by Thomas Bantocks of Wolverhampton. She was probably built for either Bantocks themselves or the Great Western Railway. She worked on the Birmingham Canal Navigations. She is an unpowered narrow boat and is one of the few surviving examples of an unusual composite narrow boat construction, whereby the main upper sections of the hull sides, in wrought iron, are fastened to a timber bottom, or garboard, strake; the timber strake then being fastened to bottom boards in the manner usual with timber constructed narrowboats.

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