LAUNCH DAY PHOTOGRAPHS

JOHN HARKER SHIPYARD KNOTTINGLEY

10th SEPTEMBER 1964

' GEORGE DYSON '

Official No.305766

BARGE LAUNCHED

Mrs F.S. Poole, wife of the Chairman of Laporte Acids, launched an all welded general cargo barge for G.D. Holmes Ltd., of Goole at the shipyard of John Harker Ltd., Knottingley on Thursday.
The vessel is over 113 feet long and 17 feet 6 inches broad and has a carrying capacity of about 290 tons. It has a diesel engine and a speed of about 7 knots. The cabin forward is arranged for a crew of two.
Pontefract & Castleford Express, 17th September 1964, page 6

NOTES: Registered at Hull number 46 on 7th October 1964. A general cargo steel barge with a six-cylinder Gardner engine built by Harkers in 1964 for George Dyson Holmes Ltd. of Goole. Measurements 109.70ft x 17.55ft x 7.85ft, gross tonnage 139.74, register 94.01. Sold to James Barraclough in 1974, then to Gainsborough Shipping in 1975.