Photos of Compartment Boat Tugs

"Tom Pudding tugs"

 

From the archives of the Yorkshire Waterways Museum and its supporters

 

No.5 of 1880 (collection of Terry Thwaite)

 

Ten of the fleet in this photo, 'No.6' is a jebus (false bow) not the tug of that number

No.6 of 1891 (later renamed WATERLOO) lying in the Medway in 2006 (photos Ray Harrison)

No.10 of 1894 (or less likely 1899/1900?)

No.13 ... probably the Merchandise fleet tug of 1896?

No.2 of 1909

WHITWOOD, an unidentified renaming of one of the fleet

seen in later British Waterways colours

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