Registration number 2436
Status Registered
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Details

Function Leisure Craft
Subfunction Yacht
Location Bangor
Vessel type Yawl
Current use Unknown
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No
Info required Yes

Construction

Builder Stow & Sons, Shoreham
Built in 1895
Hull material Wood
Rig Gaff Yawl
Number of decks 1
Number of masts 2
Propulsion Sail
Primary engine type None
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
10.06 feet (3.07m)
Depth
6.75 feet (2.06m)
Length: Overall
47.00 feet (14.34m)
Tonnage: Gross
16.00

History

VALERIE was originally built as a yawl circa 1895. She was later cutter rigged and latterly became a schooner. She has undergone a five year on-and-off restoration returning her to her original form as a clipper bowed, Victorian gentleman's yacht.  She raced at the OGA festival 2013.

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Key dates

  • 1895

    Built by Stow & Son, Shoreham for Thomas Stow

  • 1912

    Transferred to Ireland

  • 1916

    Thought to have been involved in gun running for the IRA

  • 1922

    Acquired by Alexander Cochran CBE and returned to the West Country

  • 1936

    Still owned by Cochran and located at Dartmouth

  • 1939

    Converted to cutter rig, and later to schooner rig

  • late 1950s

    Several changes of ownership follwoign death of Cochrane 

  • 1972

    Acquired by Richard Biddle, a Somerset based solicitor 

  • 1970s

    Following removal of copper sheathing 80% of planking replaced

  • 2012

    Substantial restoration carried out between 2006 and 2012

  • 2013

    Vessel relaunched following completion of restoration and put up for sale

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