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Bakewell

	GUCC Fleet No.	224
	Class	Town
	Original Type:	Butty
	Known As	Large Woolwich
	Date Built	9.12.36
	Hull Construction	Steel
	Registered	BREN 599
	Intended Paring	119

History

Sold by BWB late 1970s. was Union canal carriers camper paired with Kimberley. Converted for sale.September 1996, now owned by a marine engineer and based near Dunstable.

Factoids

No. 16 - Ship 153 The ship in Rudyard Kipling's poem "McAndrew's Hymn" was inspired by the Doric; in a letter to illustrator Howard Pyle he wrote "-but it may help you a little to know that the ship “McAndrew’s Hymn” belongs to is the old Doric, once an Atlantic White Star I think, and now a Shaw, Savill, Albion boat running to New Zealand via the Cape of Good Hope and home round the horn

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