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Buxton

	GUCC Fleet No.	126
	Class	Town
	Original Type:	Motor
	Known As	Large Woolwich
	Date Built	25.2.37
	Hull Construction	Steel
	Registered	COV 540
	Intended Paring	245

History

Motor "Buxton" and an unidentified butty waiting for Thurmaston lock on the way to load.

Factoids

No. 11 - Asturias Before being broken up ship no. 507 the Asturias, was lent by the breaker, Thomas W. Ward, to the Rank Organisation for use in the film "A Night to Remember". Asturias' port side was used to depict Titanic in the lifeboat-lowering scenes of the film even as the shipbreakers were at work on the starboard side.

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