' Danny ' leaving Canning Dock Liverpool
The Daniel Adamson is a small powerful canal steam tug vessel . she was built at Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead in 1903 to tow barges from Cheshire and the Potteries to the seaport of Liverpool. She was originally named the Ralph Brocklebank after a former chairman of the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board and member of shipping dynasty T & J Brocklebank .In 1936 the Ralph Brocklebank was given a radical refit and her name changed to that of the ship canal’s founding father and first MSCC chairman, Daniel Adamson. In 2004 she was earmarked for scrapping but immediately the Daniel Adamson Preservation Society was formed . Their commitment and fundraising drive paid off, and in February 2015 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded £3.8m to fully restore the Daniel Adamson. DAPS with its volunteer members skills , enthusiasm, and time , have now fully restored the vessel back to full working order
' Danny ' leaving Canning Dock Liverpool
The Daniel Adamson is a small powerful canal steam tug vessel . she was built at Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead in 1903 to tow barges from Cheshire and the Potteries to the seaport of Liverpool. She was originally named the Ralph Brocklebank after a former chairman of the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board and member of shipping dynasty T & J Brocklebank .In 1936 the Ralph Brocklebank was given a radical refit and her name changed to that of the ship canal’s founding father and first MSCC chairman, Daniel Adamson. In 2004 she was earmarked for scrapping but immediately the Daniel Adamson Preservation Society was formed . Their commitment and fundraising drive paid off, and in February 2015 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded £3.8m to fully restore the Daniel Adamson. DAPS with its volunteer members skills , enthusiasm, and time , have now fully restored the vessel back to full working order