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JOHN HARKER SHIPYARD KNOTTINGLEY

23rd AUGUST 1937

' HUNTS ROGER '

Official No.165671

Registered at Hull number 53 on 16th August 1937. A steel dumb barge built by Harker's in 1937 for John Hunt & Sons, Leeds. Measurements 74.5ft x 16.55ft x 7.65ft, gross tonnage 91, register 88. Re-registered number 72 on 2nd December 1950 after being fitted with a four-cylinder Ruston and Hornsby engine