Stour (narrowboat)

Stour is an all-wooden motor narrow boat powered by a Bolinder 15 h. p. diesel engine. It was built as a tar tanker in 1937 by Fellows Morton and Clayton at their Uxbridge dockyard for fuel oil carriers Thomas Clayton Ltd of Oldbury.

The hull has oak planked sides, elm bottoms and pine deck with a fully fitted traditional boatman’s cabin. She was one of a large fleet of all wooden boats used by that Company for liquid cargo carrying, the main hold area being fully decked over.

When new it would have carried refined fuels such as gas oil for powering machinery but as it got older it was used for carrying heavier lubricating oil from the fuel distribution plants on the Manchester Ship Canal.

It is now owned by the Black Country Living Museum, in Dudley, where it is based and can be seen dockside in the Lord Ward’s Canal Arm at the museum.

Stour is on the National Historic Ships register.

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Ships and vessels on the National Register of Historic Vessels

Sailing ships	Albion Bloodhound Cambria Cutty Sark Discovery Edith May Excelsior Glenlee Hathor Irene Kathleen & May Lady of the Lea Maud Peggy Reaper Thalatta Will

Steamships	Cervia Duke of Lancaster Explorer Freshspring Gondola Great Britain John H Amos Kingswear Castle Lydia Eva Maid of the Loch Medway Queen Nomadic Robin Ryde Shieldhall Tattershall Castle Waverley Wingfield Castle

Motor vessels	Aberdonia Arctic Corsair Balmoral Bluebird of Chelsea Bustardthorpe Calshot Devon Belle Havengore Karina Lady of the Lake Lady Wakefield Massey Shaw Mincarlo Pyronaut Raven Ross Tiger Royal Iris SR.N1 Sundowner The Second Snark Tower Belle

Canal vessels	Bessie Birchills Diamond Kildare Peacock Perseverance IV President Stour

Lifeboats	Aguila Wren Forester’s Centenary H F Bailey III Helen Smitton Henry Ramey Upcher J C Madge Jesse Lumb Lucy Lavers The Manchester Unity of Oddfellows Thomas McCunn William and Kate Johnstone Zetland

Lightships	Light Vessel 12 Spurn Light Vessel 14 Spurn North Carr

Warships	CMB 4 HMS Alliance HMS Belfast HMS Bronington HMS Caroline HMS Cavalier HMS Gannet HMS Ocelot HMS President HMS Trincomalee HMS Unicorn HMS Victory HMS Warrior HMS Wellington M33 LCT 7074 Mary Rose MTB 102

Vessels of the National Historic Fleet	Albion RNLB Alfred Corry Balmoral Calshot Cambria Cervia CMB 4 Cutty Sark Excelsior Glenlee H F Bailey III Hathor HMS Alliance HMS Belfast HMS Bronington HMS Caroline HMS Cavalier HMS Gannet HMS President HMS Trincomalee HMS Unicorn HMS Victory HMS Warrior Holland 1 HQS Wellington Jesse Lumb John H Amos Kathleen and May Kingswear Castle Light Vessel 12 Spurn Lydia Eva M33 Maid of the Loch Mary Rose Massey Shaw Maud Mayflower Medway Queen MTB 102 North Carr Peacock Peggy President Prince Frederick's Barge PS Ryde Pyronaut Reaper Result HMY Britannia Discovery Sir Walter Scott SS Great Britain SS Nomadic SS Robin SS Shieldhall Sundowner Thalatta The Fairmile Turbinia Waverley Wingfield Castle Zetland

Vessels listed on the National Archive of Historic Vessels	City of Adelaide HMS Stalker Lincoln Castle Manxman Queen Mary Somerset Waterwitch

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