Registration number 1379
Status Registered
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ETHEL ALICE - under sail. Starboard side
ETHEL ALICE - underway, bow from port side looking aft.
ETHEL ALICE - underway. bow from port quarter looking aft.
Photo Comp 2018 entry - Ethel Alice, by Seamus Masters
Flypast
Under the rainbow

Details

Function Fishing Vessel
Subfunction Dredger
Location Faversham
Vessel type Smack - Oyster
Current use Private use
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Aldous & Sons, Brightlingsea
Built in 1897
Hull material Wood
Rig Gaff Cutter
Number of decks 1
Number of masts 1
Propulsion Sail
Primary engine type None
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
9.61 feet (2.93m)
Depth
4.59 feet (1.40m)
Length: Overall
40.00 feet (12.20m)

History

Built in 1897 by Aldous of Brightlingsea, ETHEL ALICE is a fishing smack with a carvel built hull of iroko planking on oak frames and is a gaff rigged cutter with one timber mast. She has no engine. After a working life dredging for oysters off the Essex coast, she now races in local smack matches. There are few craft left in her class.

Key dates

  • 1897

    Built by Aldous of Brightlingsea as an Oyster Smack
  • 1897-1995

    Dredged for oysters off the Essex Coast
  • 1995

    Total rebuild
  • 2014

    Acquired by present owner

Grants

  • Jan 2017

    A Sustainability Grant of £1,000 towards the cost of sails was made from the Strategic Development Fund of National Historic Ships UK

Sources

Classic Boat: Ethel Alices wins Whitstable, March, 1990

Own this vessel?

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