Severn Hawk

LPB identification number

3

DRM identification number

N/A

AJP identification number

N/A

Source

(LPB)(KT)(MN)(BWA)(GF)(JP)(DF)(DW)(MN)

Name

P.O.R

Description

Dates

Severn Hawk

Bristol 6/35

Gloucester 7/49

Bird Class Steel Barge

1935 - 1972

Official number 163860

Code N/A

Builders: Charles Hills & Sons, Bristol (yard no 235)

Dimensions

Length 89.8ft

Breadth 18.8ft

Depth 6.3ft

Tonnage – (1949) Gross 86.01 ton Net 76.7 B.D

Engines None

By N/A

H.P. N/A

Beached date

13^th May 1972

Beached by

Stanegarth – Capt. Ken Tytherleigh

Dick Rugman (1st Engineer)

John Powell (2nd Engineer)

Bankmen Dick Woodward – Russell Smith

Miscellaneous

Bristol cert transfer to Gloucester 04.04.1949, cert delivered up

Fate 13.5.72 Towing Severn Hawk to graveyard

Put to reinforce canal bank at Sharpness seen Nov 1972

Broken up – MNL Supp March 1974

Crewed by Doug Munday who often went to Cardiff

First Owners

Severn & Canal Carrying Co, Ltd, Bristol (36)

Changes

British Transport Commission, 55 Broadway, London S.W.1 Manager Arthur C. Lisle. Dock Office, Gloucester

British Waterways Board (1967)