FCB 67

The remains

Plaque at Purton

Name	P.o.R	Description	Dates
FCB 67	N/A	ferro concrete barge	1941-c.1962
Official No. N/A		Code N/A
Builders Wates Building Group Ltd – Barrow in Furness
Dimensions	Length 84 ft	Breath 22.6 ft	Depths 8.1 ft
Tonnage – (1941) Gross 332 ton loaded Net not recorded
Engines By H.P. None
Beached date	C. Spring 1962
Beached by	Capt Oliver Powell, Jimmy Common, Bob Green, Dick Woodward
Miscellaneous	Purtons FCB’s have no reference in any Mercantile Navy List Various concrete lighters were positioned across the gates of the old arm and adjoining basin for some time prior to beaching. John Perkins diary entry 9th June 1965 FCB No. 51 from Sharpness to Gloucester Physical description and named as located by DJW in 1965 FCB 51 afloat 3rd September 1965 Dick Woodward advised a FCB “can be seen via wire hawsers around the tree”David Wheeler stated that concrete FCB 51 had been “freshly deposited” in June 1965 but was by October 1969 recognised thus “only her bows and stern gunnel remain visible, due to extensively silting.”
First Owners	Fred A. Ashmeads & Sons Ltd, Bristol
Changes	George Thomas Beard, Gloucester Ben Cooke Ltd British Transport Commission (1962) British Waterways Board (1963)