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Registration number
548
Status
Archived
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Details
Function
Fishing Vessel
Subfunction
Dredger
Location
Burnham-on-Crouch
Vessel type
Oyster Smack
Archive reason
More information required
Current use
Unknown
Available to hire
No
Available for excursions
No
Info required
Yes
Web address
https://www.vanguardrestorationfoundation.org/
Construction
Builder
Prior, R & J, Burnham on Crouch
Built in
1937
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
14.59 feet
(4.45m)
Depth
4.59 feet
(1.40m)
Length: Overall
44.98 feet
(13.72m)
History
Built 1937 by R. & J. Prior at Burnham, an oyster smack with a hull of carvel construction, pitch pine on oak and a Kelvin K2 44 hp engine. The Burnham Oyster Company had her purpose built for dredging. She attended the Dunkirk evacuations in World War II. At the end of the war Keeble & Sons of Paglesham, Essex, bought her and she resumed work as an oyster dredger. In 1962 the oyster population had diminished and she was sold to a private owner of Burnham-on-Crouch, who used her for inshore fishing. Ten years later she was sold again and she now works as a shrimping boat on the rivers Roach and Crouch based at Battlesbridge.
As of April 2018, vessel is reported to have been transported back to Burnham by a group of volunteers and is sitting at the Mangapps Railway Museum.
We are lacking information on this particular vessel. If you have any information on this vessel past or present, please contact us.
Key dates
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1937
Purpose built for dredging for Burnham Oyster Company by R. & J. Prior at Burnham
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1940
Assisted in the Dunkirk evacuations in the Second World War
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1945
At end of war bought by Keeble & Sons of Paglesham, Essex and work as an oyster dredger resumed
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1962
Sold to private owner at Burnham-on-Crouch who used her for inshore fishing
-
1972
Sold again for work as shrimping boat on rivers Roach and Crouch based at Battlesbridge
-
1996
In commercial use by present owner
Sources
Brann, Christian, The Little Ships of Dunkirk: 1940-1990, Collectors Books Ltd, 1989
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