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Certificate no
1595
Status
Archived
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Details
Function
Fishing Vessel
Subfunction
Dredger
Location
Unknown
Vessel type
Leigh Cockler
Archive reason
More information required
Current use
Unknown
Available to hire
No
Available for excursions
No
Info required
No
Construction
Builder
Seacraft & Co Ltd, Leigh on Sea
Built in
1945
Hull material
Wood
Rig
Gaff Ketch
Number of decks
1
Number of masts
2
Propulsion
Sail
Number of engines
1
Primary engine type
Diesel
Boiler type
None
Boilermaker
None
Dimensions
Breadth: Beam
12.89
feet
(3.93
m)
Depth
3.67
feet
(1.12
m)
Tonnage: Gross
0.00
Air Draft
To be confirmed
Length: Overall
38.78
feet
(11.82
m)
History
RENOWNED, Leigh Cockler, built by Seacraft & Co Ltd, Leigh on Sea in 1945. The vessel was built for a well-known Leigh cockling family, the Osbournes, and was paid for by the Admiralty to replace their vessel which had been sunk with all hands at Dunkirk (six Leigh cocklers ferried some 1000 troops off the beaches). Material was supplied from Chatham dockyard. LOA with bowsprit 13.75m, LOA 11.82, MB 3.93, DR 1.12m, tons 10.37. Hull is carvel built of mahogany planking on oak frames fastened with iron nails. Has pointed bow with plumb straight stem, and transom stern. Has 1 deck and two timber masts rigged as a ketch with gaff sails. Current engine is an inboard Ford/Parsons diesel, model 6D Barracuda, 6 cy, 120 hp, made in 1960s. Converted to a pleasure yacht in 1947. Sound and seaworthy with a new wheelhouse being fitted.
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