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Registration number
304
Status
Registered
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Previous names
- 1924 - 2017 Lady Elizabeth
Details
Function
Passenger Vessel
Subfunction
Excursion
Location
Torbay
Current use
None
Available to hire
Yes
Available for excursions
Yes
Web address
www.weferry.co.uk
Construction
Builder
Rogers & Co, Cremyll, Plymouth
Built in
1924
Hull material
Wood
Rig
None
Number of decks
1
Propulsion
Motor
Number of engines
1
Primary engine type
Diesel
Boiler type
None
Boilermaker
None
Dimensions
Breadth: Beam
11.00 feet
(3.36m)
Depth
3.00 feet
(0.92m)
Length: Overall
50.00 feet
(15.25m)
Tonnage: Gross
20.00
History
Built 1924, a passenger vessel with a capacity for 90 passengers, BRIXHAM BELLE previously sailed between Kingsbridge and Salcombe. She was purchased by WeFerry (Funfish Trips) in 2015 in a sorry state and since then has undergone extensive repairs and is back in passenger service in open sea, operating under the name BRIXHAM BELLE.
She's had a new top deck, wheelhouse, transom and aft deck, foredeck and main deck and gunwhale capping. She's been fully recaulked and hull stripped and repainted.
Her original cable steering was replaced with hydraulic this year and her 120hp Ford Sabre upgraded with a brand new 360hp Daewoo, new gearbox, prop shaft, bearings, propeller and new rudder.
She went back into passenger service in Torbay between Torquay, Paington and Brixham in 2017 and in 2018 was launched on a bespoke, brand new coastal service between Teignmouth and Brixham where she now carries up to 78 passengers each way on a combined cruise and train trip with The Great Western Railway.
Key dates
-
1924
Vessel built by Rogers & Co., Cremyll
Sources
Hamer, Geoffrey, Trip Out 1995/6 - A Guide to the Passenger Boat Services of the British Isles, G P Hamer, 1995
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