Daniel Adamson Preservation Society

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Presenting  "Daniel Adamson" the unique passenger carrying steam tug tender - a NRHV Designated Vessel.

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Daniel Adamson Historical Miscellany 

The DANIEL ADAMSON from a postcard dated June 1955 courtesy of John Deakin (scanned by Alan Hughes)

 

DANIEL ADAMSON at The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port in 1993 with Steam Tug Kerne before vandalism and neglect took hold.

Photo Tom Mc. Grattan

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A visit to the MSC by King Fuad of Egypt (date uncertain) showing the visiting party touring on the 'Ralph Brocklebank. before she was renamed DANIEL ADAMSON

Ted Grey Collection

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DA1.jpg (121550 bytes) DA with 250 ton floating crane approaching Barton Bridge (the tug alongside her is Mount Manisty). [left]

DA acting as stern tug of Sheaf Field above Irlam [right]. 

Nigel Farrel Collection.

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The photograph on the left shows the DANIEL ADAMSON in her first guise as the Shropshire Union Canal and Railway Company's RALPH BROCKLEBANK towing a train of barges down the Mersey. In back ground only the Port of Liverpool Building can be seen nearing completion which dates this photograph as being circa 1905. The liner is Leyland Line's WINIFREDIAN. 

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George's Landing Stage - Liverpool 1930s

Manchester Ship Canal 

 March 28, 1978

© Stan Basnett

Manchester Ship Canal

© John Clarkson

DANIEL ADAMSON.jpg (74041 bytes) DANIEL ADAMSON around the time of transfer to the BOAT MUSEUM in the mid 1980s.

Left © David Bower and right from the Percy Dunbervand collection.

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Engine Room [Left]

Runcorn [Right] Transporter Bridge just visible beyond railway bridge.

(Alan Hughes Collection)

Daniel Adamson at Eastham

circa 1958

(Alan Hughes Collection)

 

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