The following is all the information I have
on the boats of the Fish class.

Please let me know if you have any updates/corrections etc.

Where a link appears on the boat name, there is a page with
extra information and/or additonal photos. These pictures are not
all thumbnailed and some pages may be large and slow to load.

Name
Construction
Yard no.
Launch date
Left builders boatyard
Commision date
FMC No
Reg. no.
Notes
CS/Y
422
 
29/11/02
02/33
310
Bm 1545

Shortened to 55'. Rebuilt to 70' by Keith Ball with full length cabin. Lister HA2. Rear section still exists with BCN day boat front end, based southern GU. Armstrong AS2 fitted.

W/U
 
 
 
08/33
311
Ux 582

Broken up 2000 at Runcorn.

W/U
 
 
 
03/34
312
Ux 583

Abandoned by BWB in the late 60's. Raised Steve Wakefield. Sold to youngsters with whom it sank at Croxley Mill. Raised by Graham Holland and used for some years. Sold to Brentford Bridge Boatyard, who abandoned her below the tide lock.

S/Y
449
20/01/34
29/01/34
03/34
313
Bm 1547

No confirmed details. reportedly shortened and used for maintenance but not confirmed.

S/Y
 
 
 
05/34
314
Bm 1552

Converted to butty in 1950s. Now renamed Leopard. Location unknown.

S/Y
451
09/04/34
09/04/34
06/34
315
Bm 1553

Unconverted in FMC livery. Used on promotional photos for the 2002 IWE.

I/Y/F
458
23/06/34
25/06/34
08/34
316
Bm 1555
Unconverted. Was at Ellesmere Port for a long time, now based at Stretton on the North Oxford
I/Y/F
459
14/07/34
19/07/34
10/34
317
Bm 1556

Unconverted. Still on maintenance duties with BW. Based Staffs & Worcs.

I/Y/F
460
17/09/34
04/10/34
12/34
318
Bm 1557

Unconverted in FMC livery with extended cabin and replacement 9hp Bolinder engine.

I/Y/F
461
20/09/34
04/10/34
12/34
319
Bm 1558

Thought to have been broken up 1970s

I/Y/F
462
22/11/34
03/12/34
03/35
320
Bm 1560

Boat is now in two halves, in Notts., be rebuilt, with a Lister JP3 to be installed; expected completion date 2004.

I/Y/F
463
31/12/34
05/01/35
04/35
321
Bm 1561

An ongoing restoration project in Bristol Docks. New rivetted counter, and Iroko bottom; fore-cabin being worked on.

I/Y
484
 
11/10/35
12/35
322
Bm 1581

Still used to deliver fuel in the midlands. Is in owners livery.

I/Y
485
 
22/11/35
02/36
323
Bm 1582

Unconverted in BW livery. Extended engine room with replacement 15hp Bolinder engine.

I/Y
486
11/11/35
25/11/35
03/36
324
Bm 1583

Unconverted in BW livery. Engine Lister HA2. Part of the Boat Museum collection, based at Ellesmere Port.

I/Y
487
 
30/03/36
06/36
325
Bm 1596

Thought to now be the rear section of Russia, based Bull's Bridge.

I/Y
488
18/06/36
02/07/36
09/36
326
Bm 1600

Rebuilt at Horseley Fields dock; owned by Midland Canal Transport and based at Dimmingsdale S&W.

I/Y
489
07/07/36
24/07/36
09/36
327
Bm 1599

Based Shardlow, Derbyshire. Visited Llangollen in summer 2002. One photo of the boat in HNBOC magazine.

 

Key for construction notes:

F forecabin fitted
I Iron composite
CS Coppered Steel construction
W Wooden construction
S Steel Construction
U Built FMC Uxbridge
Y Built Yarwoods, Northwich

Information from boat owners or one
or more of the following sources:

Alan Faulkner's book FMC
Published 1975, Robert Wilson
(not now in print)

Roger Fuller's historic boats site
www.canalnarrowboats.com
...updated and mirrored at
www.ammodels.4t.com

The Historic Narrowboat Owners Club
www.hnboc.org