Bessie (narrowboat)

It is now owned by the Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, West Midlands, England, where it is based.

[2] These open 'day' boats worked short distances carrying bulk cargoes such as coal and iron ore.

Though often referred to as a 'Joey', a Joey was a double prow ended vessel that moved the rudder from one end to the other, so it didn't need to be turned around in a congested canal Although most working boats at the time were wooden, larger firms used riveted iron boats like this one as though more expensive to build they lasted longer.

From the 1930s Bessie was used by Stewarts & Lloyds tube works in Halesowen.

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