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Hydra

	GUCC Fleet No.	52
	Class	Star
	Original Type:	Motor
	Known As	Small Woolwich
	Date Built	24.7.35
	Hull Construction	Iron Composite
	Registered	BREN 496
	Intended Paring	293

History

Converted. TG.8/99 Photo:Narrowboats in Stoke Bruerne bottom lock on the Grand Union Canal, breasted up and are 'Bramble' on the left and 'Hydra' on the right.

Factoids

No. 31 - The Nicholson Shed In the 1920s and due to the christian preaching of W.P. Nicholson, the yard named a shed the "Nicholson shed,”it had to be erected to house stolen tools that newly converted shipyard employees returned as a result of his preaching. Finally, Harland and Wolff declared an amnesty, forgiving all who had stolen tools and materials because there was nowhere else to store them.

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