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Registration number
2798
Status
Registered
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Details
Function
Leisure Craft
Subfunction
Yacht
Location
London
Vessel type
Ketch
Current use
Private use
Available to hire
No
Available for excursions
No
Construction
Builder
Howard, Tom
Built in
1914
Hull material
Wood
Number of masts
2
Propulsion
Motor
Number of engines
1
Primary engine type
Diesel
Boiler type
None
Boilermaker
None
Dimensions
Length: Overall
37.00 feet
(11.28m)
Breadth: Beam
9.00 feet
(2.74m)
Depth
3.33 feet
(1.02m)
Air Draft
7.00 feet
(2.13m)
Tonnage: Gross
11.58
History
LURLINE OF IPSWICH is a leisure craft of timber carvel construction built by Tom Howard of Maldon in 1914. The vessel was built as an auxiliary ketch and presently has a 6 cylinder Ford engine installed in 2000.
As a survivor of two world wars she has considerable history and assisted at the Dunkirk evacualtion during the second world war and regularly returns to Dunkirk as a member of the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships.
She has been in the same ownership since 1985 and took part in the Her Majesty the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Regatta on the River Thames, London, in 2012.
Key dates
-
1914
Built by T Howard of Maldon
-
1940
Took part in the Dunkirk evacualtion
-
2012
Took part in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Regatta
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