The 2010 Transport Trust Awards Ceremony was held on Monday 14th June 2010 in Torquil’s Bar of the Camden Roundhouse, named after Sir Torquil Norman CBE, a Transport Trust Vice President. who purchased the building in 1996 and then established a trust to run it as an arts venue. The Roundhouse is historic, having been built by the London & Birmingham Railway as an engine shed in 1847. However, as the size of locomotives quickly increased, they outgrew the turntable so the building became obsolete from 1855. 

Preservationist of the Year was Derek Gransden for leadership of the VIC 96 Trust who restored VIC 96, a WW2 ‘Victualling Inshore Craft’, which was almost derelict in Maryport in Cumbria. Trust members restored the ship and steamed her all the way to a new home at Chatham in Kent.

30th May 2010

19th November 2009

Project Leader and Skipper Derek Gransden explains to Alan Barnes the work carried out during the last years of the restoration of VIC 96 and her maiden month-long 856-nautical mile voyage home to Chatham last July.

26th June 2009

The Vic 96 will leave on July 5 for Chatham in Kent with 12 people on board who have been travelling from Kent and Sussex to the town’s Elizabeth Dock each weekend over the last five years to make her seaworthy.

1st October 2004

RESTORATIONS to the VIC 96 steam ship reached a landmark stage at Maryport last weekend and a party was held to celebrate.

Last Saturday saw a new teak wheelhouse and a refurbished steam winch delivered, watched by a group from the old Maryport steam ship trust.

21st May 2004

A SMALL crowd gathered at Maryport Marina on Tuesday to watch the 130 tonne Vic 96 steam ship being pulled out of the water.