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Reader's Letters & Queries: NarrowBoat, Winter 2011

In lan Moss’s ‘Coal to Liverpool’ article (Spring 2011 NB), the second picture claims to show the tug Sulzer, whilst the third illustration features a very similar-looking tug Leo. Judging by the pictures of Sulzer on page 44 of the Autumn 2011 NB some extensive rebuilding seems to have taken place just before or after the vessel left Yorkshire for Lancashire. Can anyone give further details of this? Mike Taylor, DronfieldRoy Gibbons replies: I cannot be sure when tug Sulzer arrived over to the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Parke’s. The boatyard at Bankhall, Liverpool, where they were based had extensive facilities for dry-docking and boatbuilding. The upright side decks were probably removed there and the cabin top altered. She was extensively used on the Sandhills Tip to Athol Street gas works run, which was only about a mile, but was a seven-daysa-week job, even when I started in 1958. They would load up to 10 boats daily. By then she had transferred to th…

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