tarboat's photos with the keyword: short boat

The short boat George was built in 1910 to carry coal for the Wigan Coal & Iron Company. This is now the sole survivor of the transom-stern boats commonly used on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. After it finished working on the coal trade in Lancashire the boat was saved for the Boat Museum at Ellesmere Port where it remains after a major rebuild in 2016. This view shows the transom stern as it was in 2003 in the livery of its original owners.

A small convoy from Manchester to Ellesmere Port is passing the Stanlow oil refinery. Narrowboat Victoria leads the way with Short Boat Severn close behind and then some way behind comes tanker narrowboat Spey. An easy short day's boating compared with the long haul via Middlewich and Chester.

Narrowboat and short boat side by side under the Warburton toll bridge on the Manchester Ship Canal.

Two narrowboats and a Leeds & Liverpool short boat move aside below Latchford locks to allow the Mersey Ferry ' Snowdrop ' to pass.

Another view from the carrying contract with Short Boats Wye, owned by Apollo Canal Carriers, and Derek Bent's Weaver. Preparing to start unloading some of the pipes, with a very young Tarboat himself adjusting the mooring lines. August 1973.

Commercial carrying on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Short Boats Wye, owned by Apollo Canal Carriers, and Derek Bent's Weaver, on a contract for Bradford Corporation moving sewage pipes from Esholt to Shipley in August 1973. I was working with Derek Bent on this job and on completion we made a fast dash back across the Pennines to Leigh. One particular memory of the job is that the Corporation's steam locomotive Elizabeth was in action on the sewage works' system whilst we were loading.

Unloading underway as one of the massive concrete pipes is lifted from Derek Bent's Short Boat Weaver somewhere near Shipley. The other boat is Wye, owned by Apollo Canal Carriers, which had already unloaded. August 1973