Redcliff ex Severn Commerce ex Cleprod No 2

LPB identification number

DRM identification number

N/A

AJP identification number

N/A

Source

(LPB)(SC)(MN)(AHF)(DF)(JP)(RS)(DW)

Name

P.O.R

Description

Dates

Redcliff ex (62)

Severn Commerce ex Cleprod No 2

Bristol 4/63

Gloucester 4/51

Bristol 4/30

Steel tank barge

1930 – to date

8 months to build

Official number 160001

Code N/A

Builders: Charles Hills & Son, Bristol (yard no 184)

Dimensions

Length 90ft

Breadth 21ft

Depth 7.4ft

Tonnage – (1930) Gross 127 ton Net 124 ton B.D 111

Tonnage – (1951) Gross 126.67 ton Net 1232.68 B.D

Engines

By N/A

H.P. N/A

Beached date

N/A

Beached by

N/A as taken to Isle of Man 1964 by Tug Salisbury

Miscellaneous

Sister ship to Severn Conveyor ex Cleprod No 1

Purchased by Bristol Oil Storage Co. Ltd in 1930 for £2500

NWM photo showing barge Cleprod No. 2 in Diglis Lock 30 – 35

In Avonmouth R.E. Locks with dumb tank barges Severn Commerce (ex Cleprod No 2) and Severn Conveyor (ex Cleprod No1) 31^st August 1937

BS 3.95 – Adrift off Sharpness entrance, 18.11.49, but saved

Fate reg closed and transferred to Gloucester 17.04.1951

Renamed Severn Commerce 1951

skippered by the Gloucester man Bert Merret

Ll.list 21.12.62 Application to charge name to Redcliffe.. dd 17.12.62

Lloyds Class AI. 9/32 (Limit Cardiff)

Severn Commerce known locally as ‘a cow mouthed barge’

First Owners

Ellesmere Port Oil Wharfs, Ltd

Changes

Bristol Oil Storage Co. Ltd London (30 33)

Severn and Canal Carrying Co Bristol (36 45)

Wheatcraft Ltd., (Priday Metford) Gloucester

Fox Elms Ltd City Mills, The Docks Glos manager John Bevan (51)

T.R. Brown and Sons Ltd., Bristol (Dec 62) (R)