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Branksome

	GUCC Fleet No.	241
	Class	Town
	Original Type:	Butty
	Known As	Large Woolwich
	Date Built	9.12.36
	Hull Construction	Steel
	Registered	BREN 612
	Intended Paring	122

History

Scrapped by British Waterways Board (suspect late 1970's) Possibly cut up at Bulls Bridge. Photo: The British Waterways narrowboat pair "Pinner" and "Branksome" 1950's

Factoids

No. 9 - The Thompson Dock At the time of its construction The Thompson Dock was the biggest Dry Dock in the world, built for the biggest ships in the world. RMS Olympic was the first ship dry-docked here in April 1911, followed later by her sister ships Britannic and Titanic. The Dock was named after Robert Thompson who was Chairman of the Harbour commissioners at the time.

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