River/Canal maintenance boat on the Sawley Cut
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River/Canal maintenance boat on the Sawley Cut
Image: © Roger Kidd Taken: 27 Aug 2013
This maintenance tug boat in British Waterways colours is wide beam (about 11ft 6in - 3·5m), so cannot negotiate the narrow locks on most of the canal system. Before 2010(?) it was painted turqoise and dark yellow-orange; before that it was longer and not a tug; research needed. There is a sister boat called Neptune, also converted.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.873854
Longitude
-1.297509