Flipbook: Drawing of Compartment Diesel Tug, 1958
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Drawing of Compartment Diesel Tug, 1957
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British Waterways Drawing Number 214, dated 7th March, 1957.
By the second half of the 1950s, the “Tom Pudding” steam tugs originally built for the Aire and Calder Navigation Company, were coming to the end of their working lives. Those Goole based vessels had been employed on a daily basis pulling trains of compartment boats to and from coal pits in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was now felt the time was right to replace them with seven modern diesel powered tugs.
Those new tugs were to be built at different shipyards. Hatfield was built at Goole by Herbert Campling. Richard Dunston at Thorne built three tugs, West Riding, Brodsworth and Kellingley. Three more vessels, Wheldale, Water Haigh and Allerton Bywater were to be built by E C Jones and Son (Brentford) Limited. This drawing refers to the contract for the latter three tugs.
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We are very familiar with the tug Wheldale which for many years took parties of visitors to the now defunct Yorkshire Waterways Museum on dock trips around Goole Docks.
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This drawing was recreated many years ago by Graham Buckton, once a volunteer at the Yorkshire Waterways Museum (YWM), and now a trustee of this Society. Something had inspired Graham to photograph the drawing held by the YWM in sections, print each section, painstakingly tape them together and then have the recreated drawing scanned as a whole. It was then tucked away safely at home, and forgotten about.
It is thought the copy held by YWM was destroyed after the closure in 2019.
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