Yes I remember the photo, Dave, and just found my filed copy
- LION H as HIPPO D abandoned at Selby 1997, Dave Waller
You posted on Tugtalk 134071 then David Asprey followed up at 136655, thus -
Found her registration papers at Kew so can now fill out the detail:
ON 163137
53grt 25nrt 70.1 x 15.2 x 4.8ft
(1943: 45grt 4nrt 56.9 x 15.2 x 5.9ft)
1931 John Harker Ltd, Knottingley
M4cy 2SA 200bhp 9.5kn H Widdop, Keighley
(1943: M4cy 4SA 187kW 223hp 7.5kn National Gas & Oil)
1931 John Harker Ltd, Knottingley
1943 shortened & reengined
1956 G D Holmes Ltd (perhaps unofficially renamed LION)
1960 John Deheer Ltd, Hull as HIPPO D
1964 Gilyott & Scott Ltd, Hull
1972 Alfred Henry Oakes, Hull
1973 Goole Welding Ltd, Goole
1975 R D Geeson (Derby) Ltd, Ripley
1975 Bernard & Christopher Mason, Hull
1976 Goole Welding Ltd, Goole
1978 Humber Workboats (Barton) Ltd, East Halton
1983 New Holland Shipyard Ltd (mng David Cook), New Holland
1997 spotted partially submerged on the river bank at Selby, next to the site of the old Cochrane shipyard;
possibly seen later at Naburn Locks, south of York