 100
Year Old Cutter Still Sailing
The 44 feet long
cutter Carlotta, originally named Solway, was built
by W H Halford & Co on the east bank of the canal below Hempsted
Bridge in 1900. In 2004, she was owned by Stephen Mohan and sailed
off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Research has established
that she was built for fishery protection duties off the coast of
Cumberland. (Photo: Stephen Mohan)
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 Tug
Hazel's
Curious Later Role
Information about a later role of the
former canal steam tug Hazel has been provided by Richard
Clammer who is researching boats at Weymouth. He was interested
in a boat named Zippa which had come from the Gloucester
& Sharpness Canal and had a hull like that of a tug. It was
known in Weymouth that she had previously been called Lindy Lou,
and memories in Gloucestershire recognised that this was the name
given to the Hazel by the Stourport owner who bought her
from British Waterways in the 1950s. At Weymouth in the 1960s, she
was the home of a Mr Jack Hughes and had quite modernistic steamlined
white upperworks, which did not suit her venerable origins. The
living spaces were wallpapered, which was the source of much amusement
for the quayside observers of the time, and she was fitted with
a domestic toilet and bath, which might have been satisfactory on
a river or canal but caused all sorts of interesting problems when
she put to sea! She probably left Weymouth in the late 1960s or
early 1970s. Any further information would be welcome. (Photo: R
Clammer)
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MV Severn Side
After
MV Severn Side finished delivering wheat to Reynolds Mill at
Gloucester, David Robins reports that while working to Rankin's flour mill
on the River Roach in Essex, she was holed by a collision with a semi-submerged container.
She eventually lost engine power
and was stranded athwart the fairway until temporary repairs could be made. She
was then towed to the mill and discharged.
She
was broken up on the Medway
in 2006.
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