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Working Boats

               
Victoria 1897  

Victoria
Type:Colne Police Gaff Cutter
Date:1897
Builder:Aldous Bros, Brightlingsea
Designer: anon
LOA:21'
Designed and built for the Colchester River Police to catch Oyster poachers often involving chases in the dead of night

Good Intent
Type: Bawley
Date:1860
Builder: Shrubsells, Kent
Designer:Shrubsells,Barge builders
LOA:57'
Worked under sail her whole working life until 1927 catching sprats, shrimp, oysters, trawling for flatfish and long lining for whitefish in winter.		   Sunbeam
Type: Colchester Smack
Date:1881
Builder: Perkins Whitstable
Designer: anon
LOA:70'
Smacks are the quickest and most elegant of the East Coast working boats
    Bona
Type:Bawley
Date:1903
Builder: Aldous Bros, Brightlingsea
Designer:?
LOA:35'
Originally operated from Leigh on Sea		 Frydrych Chopin Fryderyk Chopin
Type: Sailing Brig
Date:1992
Builder:Dora Shipyard, Gdansk
Designer:Zygmunt Choren
LOA:181'
Touring Europe bringing us all things Chopin and Polish (more details....) 		    Duck Punt
Type: Wildfowl Punt
Date:1981
Builder: Mark Burroughs
Designer:Mark Burroughs, Joe Dunnett, Mick Newman
LOA:18''
Look closely there is a boat in the photo and a man and a BIG gun		  
  Steam Tug Barking   Barking
Type: Steam Tug
Date:1928
Builder:Jas. Pollock & Sons
Designer: Anon
LOA:54'
Built for the Gas Light & Coke Co in Beckton 		VIC96
Type: Steam Coasting Lighter
Date:1945
Builder:Richard Dunston Ltd. of Thorne
Designer:Anon
LOA:85'
Based on the Scottish Puffer, 98 Victualling Inshore Craft were built. #96 was based at Chatham (more details....) 		    Cailliach
Type: RAF Pinnace
Date:1928
Builder:Rowhedge Ironworks & Co, Rowhedge
Designer:RAF
LOA:56' 		 
    De Furie
Type:Cardboard Tug
Date:2010
Builder:Filip Jonker
Designer:Filip Jonker
LOA:30'
Created by artist Filip Jonker and to be sailed here from the Netherlands. (more See more by clicking (ore details....)
 Stork
Type:Customs and Excise Cutter
Date:1926
Builder:Vosper & Co
Designer:Vosper
LOA:50'
Served with C&E for 25 years, was sunk by the Luftwaffe during the war, then worked as a ferry and a houseboat. Now returned to her original configuration		     Mullet
Type: Clinker Launch
Date:1962
Builder:someone in Fowey
Designer:Anon
LOA:16' 6"
Originally a Fowey Ferry now living on the Thames and kindly acting as a water taxi for Revival Entrants		  
   

Stellae Maris
Type:Admiralty Launch
Date:1938
Builder:?
Designer:anon
LOA:16'
When the Navy were in town you would have seen these buzzing back and forward on the river.

The Robert
Type: Lifeboat
Date:1960
Builder:William Osbourne
Designer:GL Watson
LOA:49'
She cost £35,500 in 1960, the money coming from an anonymous benefactor.
She was launched by the Duchess of Kent

 

     May
Type: Thames Barge
Date:1891
Builder:Cann Harwich
Designer:Anon
LOA:86'
The articulated lorries of their time. These gentle giants were sailed by a skipper and a mate and would carry cargoes up to 100 tonnes. In 1928 there were 1100 in the Thames, 10 years later 600. Today less than 50 survive (more details...)		  
   
  Dunkirk Little Ships  
   

Endeavour
Type: Cockle Bawley
Date:1926
Builder: Cole & Wiggens
Designer:Anon
LOA:36'
The last remaining Leigh Cockler. These would sail to the cockle beds, go aground for the crew to rake out the molluscs, load them on board and then return to Leigh for them to be cooked. Also a Dunkirk Little ship (more details...)

Angele Aline
Type: Gaff Ketch Trawler
Date:1921
Builder:L Bennay Fecamp
Designer: Leonce Bennay
LOA:70'
Cod fishing boat which worked the Grand Banks. She was sunk twice in WWII, once by each side. Took part in operation Dynamo (more details...)		     Wairakei
Type: Motor Yacht
Date:1932
Builder: J A Silver, Rosneath
Designer:John Bain
LOA:52'
A luxury cruising yacht built at the time of the Great Depression when 1 in 4 were unemployed (more details...)		  
   

Thamesa
Type: Motor Yacht
Date:1936
Builder:J Samuel White, Cowes
Designer:William McMeek
LOA:40' 6"
One of the first to return to Dunkirk after the war In her varied life she has entertained the Beatles and carried an anti-VAT petition to Parliament (more details...)

Bluebird of Chelsea
Type: Motor Yacht
Date:1931
Builder: Thornycroft, Hampton-on-Thames
Designer:
LOA:52'
Bluebird of Chelsea was Malcolm Campbell's second yacht. (more details..... )

     Nyula
Type: Motor Yacht
Date:1933
Builder: Walton Yacht and Launch Works, Shepperton
Designer: C.W. Burnard
LOA:40'
Betty was on the Thames in May 1940 and was gathered up with all her kind to go to Dunkirk.(more details... ) 		 

Maid Marion
Type:Cornish Lugger
Date:1925
Builder: P. Mitchell, Portmellon
Designer:Anon
LOA:39'
Originally built for a herring fisherman .(more details..... )

Papillon
Type:Motor Yacht
Date:1930
Builder: Leslie W Harris, Burnham
Designer:Anon
LOA:33'
.(more details..... ) 		  Riis 1
Type:Motor Yacht
Date:1920
Builder: McGruer & Co., Dumbartonshire
Designer:W.G. McBryde
LOA:57'
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Hilfranor
Type:Motor Yacht
Date:1935
Builder:Walton Yacht and Launch Works, Walton-on-Thames
Designer:Anon
LOA:41'
.(more details.....)		 Wanda
Type:Motor Yacht
Date:1935
Builder:E.F. Elkins' Christchurch
Designer:Reginald Yebsley
LOA:35'
.(moredetails.....)		   Stenoa
Type:R.N.L.I Lifeboat
Date:1929
Builder:J S White, Cowes IoW
Designer:Reginald Yebsley
LOA:45'
Excepting Dunkirk she has saved 148 lives. (more details.....)
   
  Pleasure Boats          
             
  Dorothy  

Dorothy
Type: Thames Rater Gaff Sloop
Date:1894
Builder:Thames Yacht Building Co., Greenhythe
Designer:Linton Hope
LOA:33'
A skiming dish of a yacht beautifully kept and still raced seriously by her present owner

Croix des Gardes
Type: Bermudian Sloop
Date:1947
Builder:Bonin, Arcachon
Designer: Henri Dervin
LOA:50'
Built from timber hidden from the Germans during the last war. 		    St Christopher
Type: Bermudian Sloop
Date:1968
Builder:Meeusen, Breskens, Holland
Designer:Sparkman & Stephens
LOA:53'
A racing yacht of the finest pedigree		  
   

Caressa
Type: Bermudian Sloop
Date:1966
Builder:Priors of Burnham
Designer:Alan Buchanan
LOA:37'
Same size as Vashti but designed five years later with more volume to compete in the Round Britain Race. Charter her or take a berth to be at the heart of the Thames Revival

Cirrus
Type: Bermudian Sloop
Date:1959
Builder:
Designer:Alan Buchanan
LOA:28'
One of Buchanans most successful designs. Simple clean elegant and functional, hundreds were built in yards up and down the East Coast.		     Bola
Type: Bermudian Sloop
Date:1964
Builder: ?
Designer:Tord Sunden
LOA:25'
The Volkswagen of the sailing world, helped the poverty stricken sailors of the fifties and sixties get out on the water. Still built today		  
    Night Wind
Type: Bermudian cutter sloop
Date:1938
Builder: Uphams
Designer: not Harrison Butler
LOA28'
Built at Uphams before WWII she bears an uncanny likeness to a Z4 tonner scaled up and given a transom. She was reproduced after the war as the Waterbug Charter her or take a berth to be at the heart of the Thames Revival 		Keepsake
Type: Cutter Rigged Sloop
Date:1937
Builder:Ponsharden, Falmouth
Designer:Dr. Thomas Harrison Butler
LOA:29.6'
A real one. This is the classic double-ended or canoe stern HB design. Will take you anywhere. The present owner of 40 years has been as far as St Petersburg		     Cantare
Type: Bermudian Sloop
Date:1962
Builder:Uphams
Designer: Kim Holman
LOA:30'
Oringinally built for the current owner's father. After many years out of the family they tracked her down and bought her back		  
  Flight of Ufford, Spirit  

Flight of Ufford
Type: Bermudan Sloop
Date:2006
Builder:Spirit Yachts, Ipswich
Designer:Sean McMillan
LOA:52'
You may have seen her sister ship sailed up the Grand Canal by James Bond (more details ...)

Ragna R
Type: Bermudian Sloop
Date:1938
Builder: Gustav Plym Stockholm
Designer: Knud Riemers
LOA:53'
Timeless 30's elegance

    Nokomis
Type: Gaff Cutter
Date:1914
Builder:Anderson of Penarth
Designer:Andrew Anderson
LOA:38'
From a builder of pilot cutters, her sister ship Emanuel was the first yacht to sail East West across the Atlantic.		  
  Saladin   Saladin
Type: Bermudian Sloop
Date:1961
Builder: Chevertons
Designer: David Cheverton
LOA:28'
First owned by a retired leather merchant, she's responsive and well-balanced, sturdy yet stylish

Great Days
Type: Bermudian Sloop
Date:1956
Builder:Bickford Topsham
Designer: Laurent Giles
LOA:35'
Built for the owner of the British Seagull Co. A single handed cruising yacht


    

Emanuel
Type: Gaff Cutter
Date:1928
Builder:Anderson of Penarth
Designer:Andrew Anderson
LOA:38'
In 1934 Commander Robert Graham RN was the first to sail to Newfoundland single handed.

  
  Aquarius   .Aquarius
Type: Stella Class Bermudian Sloop
Date:1960
Builder:Tucker Brown, Burnham on Crouch
Designer: Kim Holman
LOA:26'
Stella number 74. Kim Holman's pocket racer is still apopular one design class. This one is particularly slippery.		 Spey Beam
Type: Bermudian Sloop
Date:1965
Builder:Jones of Buckie
Designer: GL Watson
LOA:40'		   Tasma   Tasma
Type: Gaff Cutter
Date:1897
Builder:Luke Bros, Hamble
Designer:WS Luke
LOA:33'
Built for the Governor of Tasmania 		 
     
     
Kings of Pin Mill The following six boats all come from this small yard in Suffolk, still building in wood Click here for more
 
    Gladys
Type: Bawley
Date:1904/1998-2010
Builder:Aldous Bros B'sea/Harry King and Sons, Pin Mill
Designer: Anon
LOA:57'
A major renovation by the current owner of King's, Gus Carter		 Priscilla Pricilla
Type: Bermudian Sloop
Date:1932
Builder:Harry King and Son, Pin Mill
Designer: Norman Dallimore
LOA: 29.5'
There were many Dallimores built by Kings of Pin Mill .		   Tasia   Tasia
Type: Bermudian Sloop
Date:1937
Builder:Harry King and Son, Pin Mill
Designer: Norman Dallimore
LOA: 35'
There were many Dallimores buit by Kings of Pin Mill 		 
    Marcita
Type: Bermudian Sloop
Date:1957
Builder:Harry King and Sons, Pin Mill
LOA:32'
From one of the smallest yards on the East coast, but one of the last still going strong, still working in wood. Charter her or take a berth to be at the heart of the Thames Revival .		 Concord

Concord
Type: Auxiliary Gaff Yawl
Date:1937
Builder:Harry King Pin and Sons, Mill
Designer: Sydney Belchambers
LOA:36'
Built for artist and writter Archie Wright now owned by classical guitarist James Boyd and classic Boat Restoration of the Year Award Winner 2010

         
 

 

        
Motor Boats
 
    Sheemaun
Type: Twin Screw Gentleman's Motor Yacht
Date:1935
Builder: J Noble & Co.
Designer: G L Watson
LOA:45'
She played a support role in operation Dynamo and was a Thames patrol boat during WWII.
2010 Flagship of the United Kingdom Historic Fleet.		 Nenemoosha
Type: Motor Cruiser
Date:1963
Builder:Royal Van Lent
Designer: C. Van Lent & Zonen
LOA:38'
A steel boat built in Holland for a british owner, she has spent all her life on the Thames (more details ...) 		    Taggs
Type: Racing Launch
Date:1909
Builder:Megevet Geneva
Designer:Charles Picker
LOA:33'
An historic Swiss racing launch from the yard which produced several world record holders. She has been on the Thames since the 30's. Now a very stylish river cruiser 		 
    Lady Bea
Type: Motor Cruiser
Date:1960
Builder:Bates of Chertsey
Designer:Leonard Bates
LOA:30'
 La Chemme
Type: Motor Cruiser
Date:1965
Builder:Bates of Chertsey
Designer:Leonard Bates
LOA45'
When she was built she cost three times the price of the average house. Includes a cabin for your driver, very swish 		 
  Angelika
Type: Gentleman's Launch
Date:1992
Builder: McMillan Yachts
Designer:Sean McMillan
LOA: 22'
This lovely launch shows traditional boatbuilding is alive and well
  
    Crest
Type: Ketch rigged motor sailer
Date:1925
Builder:Wivenhoe
Designer:Anon
LOA:27'
Her early history is lost in the mists of time but we do know she was used as a tender to the ships during WWII at Harwich		  

Aloha
Type: Motor Yacht
Date:1948/9
Builder: Hutchinson's , Arcata California
Designer:Anon
LOA: 38'
Built for Jackie Bouvier, played host to JFK and later owned by Freddie Laker

         
   

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