Official number
105832
Reg. Tons 46
P.L.A. No. 9022
Gross ton 110
Owners No. 1361
Built at Lower
Halstow by Eastwoods Ltd in 1896 (Alex Styles and Ambrose Letley)
in her early days she worked on the Essex side Shoeburyness brickfield,
loading off the beach.
Skippers:- Isiah
Humm, Isaac Baker, Charlie Edwards.
Capacity 159
cubic yards:
36-40,000
bricks
85 tons
coal
50 tons
cotton cake
400 quarter
of wheat
504 bags
of linseed cake
800 quarters barley plus 250 quarters oats - one freight
Did he mud work
at Conyer
Took largest load out of Otterham in 1930s
54,000 bricks to Horseshoe ketty, Dagenham for the building of Ford.
1928 ammunition lighter.
Leaked very badly
after lifting onto Butterfly Wharf Conyer on the 1953 freak high tide
(was pushed off with a bulldozer).
Data is transcribed
from handwritten ledgers prepared by Frank Willmott.
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