Registration number 2399
Status Registered
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Details

Function Fishing Vessel
Location Faversham
Vessel type Fifie
Current use Private use
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Weatherhead, William & Son, Cockenzie
Built in 1931
Hull material Wood
Rig Gaff Ketch
Number of decks 1
Number of masts 2
Propulsion Sail
Number of engines 1
Primary engine type Inboard diesel
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
10.16 feet (3.10m)
Depth
4.92 feet (1.50m)
Length: Overall
42.62 feet (13.00m)

History

SWEET PROMISE was built as a Fifie, a fishing vessel of wooden carvel construction, by Weatherheads of Cockenzie in 1931. Her present engine is a BMC diesel, 56 hp. She worked as a fishing vessel until 1972. Later she was owned by Lt.Cdr Buster Crabb the well known Navy diver and was impounded by Dover Customs for smuggling Swiss watches. Owned by a private owner 1994-2018 in Lowestoft, where she had a three and a half year rebuild and restoration. Since 2018 owned by another private owner and relocated to Faversham, Kent.

Key dates

  • 1931

    Built as a Fifie, a fishing vessel of wooden carvel construction, by Weatherheads of Cockenzie

  • 1931-1972

    Operated as a fishing vessel.

  • 1994-2018

    Owned by private owner and berthed at Lowestoft.

  • 2018-2019

    Bought by new private owner in 2018 and relocated to Faversham, Kent, in 2019. 

Sources

Classic Boat: Sweet Promise - Buster Crabb's sailing Fifie, January 2013
Classic Boat: Experience - Playing prop forward, January 2013
Classic Boat, January, 2007

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