{"id":2081,"date":"2013-06-21T06:27:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T06:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2013-06-22T07:35:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T07:35:01","slug":"mayflower-in-the-underfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2081","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower in the Underfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayflower is a steam tug preserved by Bristol Museums Galleries &amp; Archives. She is based in the City Docks outside the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mshed.org\/\">M Shed<\/a>. She is the oldest Bristol-built ship still afloat and is believed to be the oldest surviving tug in the world.<\/p>\n<p>She was launched on 18th May 1861, cost &pound;1,000 and was built to work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gloucester_and_Sharpness_Canal\">Gloucester and Sharpness Canal<\/a> and the River Severn.<\/p>\n<p>This week she&#8217;s not afloat at all, but high and dry on the patent slipway of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.underfallboatyard.co.uk\/\">Underfall Yard<\/a> undergoing some maintenance and is due to remain there for the next week, as I gathered on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2082\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/06\/mayflower.jpeg\" alt=\"image of Mayflower out of the water\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/06\/mayflower.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/06\/mayflower-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayflower out of the water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayflower is a steam tug preserved by Bristol Museums Galleries &amp; Archives. She is based in the City Docks outside the M Shed. She is the oldest Bristol-built ship still afloat and is believed to be the oldest surviving tug in the world. She was launched on 18th May 1861, cost &pound;1,000 and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-oddities","tag-bristol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2104,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/2104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}