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Registration number
1407
Status
Archived
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Details
Function
Leisure Craft
Subfunction
Yacht
Location
Unknown
Vessel type
Motor Yacht
Archive reason
Disposed
Current use
Unknown
Available to hire
No
Available for excursions
No
Construction
Builder
Cox & King, Wivenhoe
Built in
1919
Hull material
Wood
Rig
Ketch
Number of decks
2
Number of masts
2
Propulsion
Motor
Number of engines
1
Primary engine type
Diesel
Boiler type
None
Boilermaker
None
Dimensions
Breadth: Beam
10.59 feet
(3.23m)
Depth
4.59 feet
(1.40m)
Length: Overall
49.97 feet
(15.24m)
Tonnage: Gross
20.00
History
BETH is a ketch rigged motor yacht, built by Cox & King at Wivenhoe in 1919. She was registered in London and her official number was 165643. Her hull is carvel built of pitch pine on oak and clench fastened, with a teak wheelhouse. She has a pointed bow with a plumb straight stem and a transom stern. Her current engine is a BMC Seamaster diesel, with six cylinders, made in approximately 1964. She is believed to have been used by the Royal Navy as a sailing trawler, but was decommissioned in 1926 and sold into private ownership. In the Second World War, she was requisitioned again and served in the Western Approaches and Swansea Waters. After the war, she re-entered private ownership.
Vessel reported broken up in 2012.
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