60 YEARS AGO - HARKER BARGES TRAGEDY

Waterway craft and trade on the Aire & Calder, South Yorkshire and Trent systems

60 YEARS AGO - HARKER BARGES TRAGEDY

Postby teesships » Fri Oct 23, 2020 6:23 pm

The BBC news site brought this to my attention and full details of this tragedy 60 years ago are given at: https://canalsidecamera.weebly.com/seve ... aster.html

Although not directly in the NEM area presumably these Harker barges, WASTDALE H and ARKENDALE H, would have traded in local waters over the years.

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Re: 60 YEARS AGO - HARKER BARGES TRAGEDY

Postby magoonigal » Fri Oct 23, 2020 9:17 pm

I saw that as well Ron.
Congratulations on unearthing the story, it makes very interesting reading.
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Re: 60 YEARS AGO - HARKER BARGES TRAGEDY

Postby northeast » Sat Oct 24, 2020 9:53 am

Not sure re ARKENDALE H deployment in her early days, but WASTDALE H was always part of Harker's Severn-based fleet, locally built as you will see.
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Re: 60 YEARS AGO - HARKER BARGES TRAGEDY

Postby Hornbeam » Tue Oct 27, 2020 10:58 am

Who would have thought that what looked like a canny little number (crewing on these vessel's a couple of Cargo discharges and then back to Base and possibly home for tea with a happy Wife who is glad you are not in some foreign Port) would have turned into such a tragedy, the sequence of events is horrific by any standards for the Barge Crews and their families.
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