An example of a modern purpose-built BW maintanance narrowboat. This is 53392 "Shad" just outside Harecastle Tunnel, Stoke on Trent. Note the unusual colour of the water, caused by iron minerals that come out of the tunnel. 22nd June 1997.

82070 "APSLEY". A standard British Waterways maintenance motor narrowboat. Banbury 23rd April 2005.

83887 seen at Thrupp on the Oxford Canal.

A standard BW maintenance motor boat near Dundas Aqueduct on the Kennet & Avon Canal. 11th August 2003.

81702 "SENCE". A British Waterways dredging/digging vessel. Banbury 23rd April 2005.

An unidentified maintenance boat at Thrupp on the Oxford Canal. 1st February 2008.

A powered maintenance vessel, Thrupp, Oxford Canal. 1st February 2008.

BW maintenance motor boat "Brinklow" engaged in lock repair work. 10th June 2005.

A vessel spraying hydrogen peroxide on the Walsall Canal to clean up a chemical spillage. 28th March 2002.

Tunnel rescue double-ended vessel "Harecastle" moored outside the tunnel on 24th March 2002.

Unpowered work flat at Aylesbury. 14th November 2005.

Unpowered work flat "Hesketh" at Gloucester on 14th April 2007.

Motor boat "President II" undergoing repairs at Red Bull Basin. September 1998.

Dredger 82166 "Wendover" at Marsworth on 19th November 2005.

Weed cutting vessel on the Chesterfield Canal. 4th August 2006.

Staff amenity vessel 96955 "Lawton" on the Bosley locks, Macclesfield Canal. 8th February 2003.

BW maintenance motor boat 89307 on the Macclesfield Canal near Fools Nook. 22nd March 2005.

Two work flats laid up at Bulbourne. 22nd June 2008.

Work flats "Wookey Hole" and "Bird Island" working abreast past Cowroast on the Grand Union. 28th August 2008.

81839, an unpowered British Waterways vessel used for moving dredgings, spoil etc. Banbury 23rd April 2005.

A tug and three lighters engaged in dredging operations on the Grand Union Canal near Grafton Regis. 14th April 2004.

82152 moored by Grove Lock, Grand Union Canal. 16th November 2005.

81338 "Freeth" on the Digbeth Branch, 21st July 2006.

One of the new generation of modular maintenance craft, "NH/025/06". Marsworth, 20th September 2008.

Motor boat 82068 "Tring" moored with wide beam work flat 82113 "Grasshopper" at Marsworth. 20th September 2008.

"Dredger 3" with wide beam work flat "Leighton" and a narrow beam work flat. Marsworth, 20th September 2008.

"Dredger 3" at Marsworth. 20th September 2008.

"Dredger 3" at Marsworth. 2nd May 2009.

Unpowered hopper 89020 at Tipton. 11th October 2008.

"Virago" at Frampton on the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal. This is a British Waterways patrol vessel. 17th June 2007.