Craft

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Fleet No

/ Built at / Hull / Cost / Owner / Launch Date
DUCHESS
/ None / Fazeley Street / Steel / Fellows Morton & Co / 1889

Pre FMC History

/ Date
Purchased from Fellows Morton & Co for £625 / 3.7.1889 (1.1.1889)

Steamer Registrations

Place / PH Number / Captain / Date Inspected / Date Registered
Birmingham (for FM & Co)
Birmingham (for FMC) / 678
841 / Andrew Humphries / 2.3.1889
26.1.1893 / 12.3.1889
16.2.1893

Steamer Gaugings

Place / Gauging Number / Notes / Date
Port of London / 9436 / Part of original bulk application.
Noted sold to Humphreys.
Also “William Wood 1177”(?) / 14.9.1894
7.4.1900

Hull Composition

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Mild steel

Maintenance

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Date

Boiler

Type / Tubes / PSI / Cost
Maintenance / Date

Engine

Maintenance / Date

Propeller Shaft

Maintenance / Date
Steamer History
/ Date
Listed at Waterman’s Hall No 1396 (15 ton) as Steam Carrying Tug / 20.5.1890

Fate

/ Sold to Harold and Edgar Humphrey, Abingdon for £575 and reregistered Bhm 860 / Date / 16.6.1893
Post-FMC History
Date / Action / Name / Source
5.1893 / To Harold and Edgar Humphrey (Abingdon Carriers) for £575 / Humphrey / DUCHESS
16.6.1893 / Reregistered at Birmingham 860 by H & E Humphrey / Humphrey / DUCHESS / Registration
21.6.1893 / Waterman's Hall records as "Harold & Edgar Humfrey of Shippon, near Abingdon, Berks DUCHESS 20 steam monkey boat / Humfrey / DUCHESS / Ref:1255/6309/4/68
27.6.1894 / Gauged at PoL as Steam Monkey Boat No 8314 70.10 x 6.8 12..16 tonnage by measurement 21..8 carrying capacity. / Humfrey / DUCHESS / Ref PoL gauging 8314
8.8.1898 / Transferred to Edgar Humfrey / Humfrey / DUCHESS / Ref PoL gauging 8314
6.8.1900 / Humfrey Registration cancelled boat sold to Barnett & Sons as steam monkey boat 12¾ tons measurement 21½ tons burthen / Barnett / DUCHESS / Ref PoL Index Fol 307
12.10.1904 / Transferred to Mary Elizabeth Wheeler of St HelenaWharf, Richmond (trading as W J Wheeler) / Wheeler / DUCHESS / Ref PoL gauging 8314
6.3.1905 / PoL Gauging Cancelled - sold J Thorneycroft Limited & not navigated / Thorneycroft / DUCHESS / Ref PoL gauging 8314
17.5.1905 / Registered at PoL to John I Thorneycroft & Co Ltd Church Wharf Chiswick Middlesex (John Maughfling - Secretary) as a Gas motor barge Craft No 10426 / Thorneycroft / DUCHESS / Fol 386 PoL Index
3.1.1906 / Left Brentford, fitted with 35hp Thorneycroft Suction Gas Engine, on journey to Manchester and back. Journey took nearly 7 weeks.2 blades broken off propeller. / Thorneycroft / DUCHESS / Articles Motor Boat 12.4.1906
5.1906 / PoL Gauging registration cancelled - left the Port / Thorneycroft / DUCHESS
26.11.1907 / Reregistered at Coventry No 343 as a steamer for John Griffiths of Bedworth renamed ANT "a fly boat worked by shifts". "Reregistration necessary owing to structural alterations and change of owner. / J Griffiths / ANT
20.9.1910 / "This boat is not now used as a dwelling but as an open boat" / J Griffiths / Cov 343 registration
Sightings
Ref / Date / Source / Captain / Crew / Butty / Notes
DUCHESS / 1889 / Launched Fazeley St
2.3.1889 / Inspected
Bm 678 / 12.3.1889 / Reg / for Fellows, Morton & Co
20.5.1890 / WH Reg / as "Duchess 15" steam carrying tug
4.1891 / Census / Andrew Humphries / at Hatton
4.1891 / Census / Frank Grandos / Driver Age 43 born Warwicks
4.1891 / Census / Frederick Grandos / Crew Age 20 born Warwicks
26.1.1893 / Inspected
Bm 841 / 16.2.1893 / Reg / Andrew Humphries
5.1893 / Sold / to Harold & Edgar Humphrey
Bm 860 / 16.6.1893 / Reg / for Humphrey
WH 9436 / 14.9.1894 / Gauged
1255
1255
Bm 1166 / 8.8.1898
6.8.1900
26.1.1906 / PoL Index
PoL Index
Reg / Canal barge 8314
To Barnett & Sons
For Thorneycroft
ANT Cov 343 / 26.11.1907 / Reg / For Griffiths
Cov 343 / 20 9 1910 / Converted to open boat by
Documents on file

Port of London Gauging 8314 (Humphrey)pc27.6.1894

Port of London Gauging 9436 (FMC)pc14.9.1894

Port of London Index 1255 (fol 307)pc8.8.1898

The Motor Boat article “Types of marine Motors”pc19.1.1905

Port of London Gauging 10426 (Thorneycroft)pc17.5.1905

Port of London Index 1326 (fol 386)pc17.5.1905

The Motor Boat article “Gas Engines for Ship Propulsionpc12.4.1906

The Motor Boat article “A Motor Barge on the Canals”pc12.4.1906

Registration Coventry 343pc26.11.1907

Census at Hattonpc5.4.1891

Photographs

BW 5513 pcIn Thorneycroft livery ¾ length

The Motor BoatpcIllustration in article 12.4.1906

Illustration

Canal & Rivercraft p58 pc In Thorneycroft livery ½ length with steerer with pole

Current Owners:

Last noted 20.9.1910