This is undoubtedly the most interesting story of any of the class.

After a period as a single motor, the boat had the stern off and was converted to butty in 1951. It was photographed at Gnosall in 1957 being towed in a line of three with two motors ahead of it. (Picture on Roach page.) This was apparently a common practice at this time.

This picture is from the book Shroppie Boats, taken after the boat was converted to a butty.

Some time after this, the bow was also cut off and replaced with straight section when it was being used as a maintenance boat. (I do not know when this happened.) When the boat was converted to a pleasure boat at a later date, the straight bow was used as the stern and the butty stern was modified to become the bow. The boat was also renamed to Leopard at some point.

The pictures below were taken on the boat's home mooring at Oldbury Boat Services in June 2004. The first two pictures are general views of the boat.

This shot shows detail of the original bow, cut off and now used as the stern.

The converted butty stern is clearly visible in this shot. (Compare with the black and white photo at the top of the page.)
The modification to the bow appears to have been done over the top of the butty stern, which looks like it may still exist underneath.

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