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JOHN HARKER SHIPYARD KNOTTINGLEY

' BURTONDALE '

Official No.301639

John Harker's Besthorpe

Registered at Hull number 20 on 27th June 1960. A steel tanker barge with an eight-cylinder Gardener engine built by Harker's in 1960. Measurements 137.95ft x 17.57ft x 8ft, gross tonnage 172.15, register 105.05. Sold to T&S Rix of Skirlaugh, Humberside, on 22nd March 1976 and re-named 'RIX FALCON' on 18th March 1992.

John Harker's Besthorpe

John Harker's Besthorpe

John Harker's Besthorpe

John Harker's Besthorpe

John Harker's Besthorpe

John Harker's Beldale H