On board the Mayflower

On board the Mayflower

Last weekend we found a few spare hours and got down to Bristol harbour. The familiar smell of coal was in the air and we found the Mayflower moored up and under steam. She’s the oldest steam tug in the world and was built in 1861 and saved from from the scrappy in the late 70’s by a 20 year old lad!
If it had been left to British Waterways she would have been melted down for bean cans years ago.
Trips are £5 per person and she is crewed by volunteers from the ‘M-Shed’. It’s well worth the money and the crew are knowledgable and keen to talk. Check the ‘M-Shed’ website to see when Mayflower is next running.
Inside there is a lovely little range from the ‘Colombian’ works of Smith and Wellstood of Bonnybridge, Scotland.