tarboat's photos with the keyword: boat museum

This shows why wooden boats and museums don't often have a happy ending. I have so many memories of this boat from evenings spent in the back cabin drinking tea, to the days when it was named Chief and kept at Styperson Wharf by the 1st Hazel Grove Scouts. It was saved from Styperson by James Hewitt for an abortive attempt to add a butty to his trip boat business. After surviving for so long it is heartbreaking to see what has happened once it arrived at a museum.

FCB18 is a concrete barge built by Messrs Wates Ltd of Barrow-in-Furness in 1944. The use of concrete for building such vessels enabled a saving of around ⅔ of the amount of steel required for a conventional barge. It is now hidden away in a remote corner of the Boat Museum at Ellesmere Port as certain people consider this important barge to be an eyesore as cement is not sexy enough for their populist ideals.