Lion

8/1930            Engine changed to 15hp BM-type Bolinder at Saltley Yard 

30/7/1949       Purchased by BTC (D&IWE), SE Division fleet, fleet no 223, but may not have been used for carrying

1/10/1953       Passed to BTC (BTW)

10/1954          Sold to Willow Wren Canal Carrying Co and renamed BITTERN

c1966              Sold to private ownership, full length cabin conversion fitted 1967

1977               The boat suffered a serious gas explosion and the conversion cabin was subsequently removed

by 2014           After many years in a semi-derelict state at Aylesbury, was derelict on the bank at Willowbridge Marina, Bletchley

2019                Restored to carrying condition by Stockton Dry Dock Co

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