Previous names
- 1937 - 1995 MFH
Details
Construction
Dimensions
History
Built in 1931 by Richard Dunston at Thorne, GAINSBOROUGH TRADER is a steel Humber keel barge with a Kelvin KR4 diesel engine installed in 1942. She was the first of her type to have a motor as well as sails and was originally used as a flour barge. She transferred from the Humber to the Thames when Pickfords bought her for their Port of London operation.
During World War II she took part in the Dunkirk evacuations. After the war she returned to her work as a lighter until 1986 when she was bought by a private owner who added a superstructure.
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Key dates
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1931
Built by Thorne of Humber as a Barge for the Hayes Wharf Cartage Co and moved to London
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1937
Renamed ‘M.F.H.’
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1940
She took part in Operation Dynamo, the Evacuation of Dunkirk
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1942
Engine replacement with a Kelvin KR4 Diesel
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1962
She worked as a Parcel Boat for BRS
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1995
Sold to Jay and Dawn Jones-Cooper and renamed ‘Gainsborough Trader’
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2011
Sold to present owner
Sources
Christian Brann, The Little Ships of Dunkirk: 55th Anniversary Supplement (1995) pub: Collectors' Books Ltd
ADLS News (Spring, 2015) Fleet news
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