Harland and Wolff - Shipbuilding and Engineering Works



Corona
  GUCC Fleet No. 32
  Class Star
  Original Type: Motor
  Known As Small Woolwich
  Date Built 18.12.35
  Hull Construction Steel Composite
  Registered BREN 577
  Intended Paring 259
 
History		    
  Passed to British Waterways Board and then sold to Coventry Education Committee about 1960 for Town Thorns School near Rugby. Bought by Trevor Maggs in January 1968, restored and used for coal carrying throughout 1970s and 1980s. Occasional loads since e.g. Oxford Canal Bi-Centenary 1990 and First Jam 'Ole Run 1995. New steel cabin fitted 1980 and steel bottom replacing elm bottom in 1984. photo  

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