Narrowboat Jemima, burnt out on the Lancaster Canal

Jemima, burnt out on the Lancaster Canal, originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

Seen while spending a peaceful week cruising up and down the canal in Henry. The heat of the fire had buckled the steel plate of the superstructure and destroyed the interior, but had left the Yamaha outboard on the transom intact, along with the gas cylinder in the cockpit. I don't recall seeing Jemima on the canal before this, so I have no idea what state she was in, but she is well beyond repair now. A shame to see a boat like this, and I can only hope that the owners were insured.