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JOHN HARKER SHIPYARD KNOTTINGLEY

17th MAY 1956

' CORDALE H '

Offical No.186710

Registered at Hull number 27 on 11th July 1956. A steel tanker barge with a Gardner engine built by Harker's in 1956. Measurements 138.2ft x 17.56ft x 6.5ft, gross tonnage 152.79, register 58.87. Sold to Stanley Ferry Dismantlers, Newland Basin, Stanley, on 14th July 1974.
In January 1960 it was stranded above the weir at Aversham near Newark on Trent. After it had been sold to John Branford of Goole and converted into a dry cargo barge, it sank in the River Ouse in Spring 1997 but was recovered.

A NEW TYPE
The 'CORDALE H', a canal boat designed for the carriage of heavy oil, was launched at the Knottingley shipyard of John Harker Ltd., yesterday week, by Miss Taylor, the daughter of Mr H.E Taylor, the Manager of the Inland Distribution Department of the Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd. The oil which the 'CORDALE H' will carry is so heavy that it has to be heated before it can be loaded or discharged. The vessel, which will carry 200 tons of it, is equipped with steam heating coils. She is 142 feet long, 17 feet 6 inches wide, and a 6 feet 6 inches deep, and will ply along the Trent between Hull and Nottingham.
Pontefract & Castleford Express, 25th May 1956, page 12.