A talk given by Ms G Hayes.
The story details a maritime and social history and importantly today a personal story of restoration from a team of committed volunteers.
The Daniel Adamson is a remarkable survivor from the steam age and a most unusual vessel. She was built at Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead in 1903 and named the Ralph Brocklebank after a former chairman of the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board.
Although built on Merseyside, the Ralph Brocklebank was one of three tugs ordered that decade by the Shropshire Union Railways & Canal Company (SURCC).
In 1915 she had a short stint working for the Royal Navy as an unarmed patrol boat around the Liverpool coastal area. The SURCC stopped canal carrying in 1921 when canal traffic declined and the fleet was sold. The Ralph Blocklebank was about to begin a new and very different phase in its working life.
We will discover more during the evenings talk.
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