Save the Wheldale!

摘要

Historic 'Tom Pudding' tug Wheldale, under threat of being sold off after the closure of the Yorkshire Waterways Museum, is the subject of a fundraising campaign by a group of the volunteers who helped to restore, maintain and operate the iconic vessel. Until the early 1980s, coal-carrying compartment boats known as Tom Puddings were a familiar site on Yorkshire's large waterways, being towed in trains of up to 19 to Goole where they were raised by hoists to tip their cargo into ships. After the trade ended, three compartment boats and the 1959 diesel tug Wheldale were preserved at the museum, which came under the Sobriety Project to support disadvantaged people.