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Registration number
2566
Status
Archived
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Details
Function
Leisure Craft
Subfunction
Yacht
Location
Unknown
Vessel type
Motor Yacht
Archive reason
More information required
Current use
Unknown
Available to hire
No
Available for excursions
No
Info required
Yes
Construction
Builder
Bradley & Seabourne, Worcester
Built in
1946
Hull material
Wood
Rig
None
Number of decks
1
Number of masts
1
Propulsion
Motor
Boiler type
None
Dimensions
Length: Overall
43.00 feet
(13.11m)
History
The vessel was commissioned as HMML Waverley and served in the Bristol Channel carrying Degaussing Officers to and from Ships passing through the Degaussing range.
It was crewed by 4 WRENS Leading Wren Mildred R Partridge (Later Paterson).was the Coxswain in charge
The vessel was based in Cardiff and moored alongside a Pontoon, the Wrens lived aboard.
At the end of the war the vessel and crew were decommissioned and the vessel was then returned to its builder and renamed Silver Wraith (which was its intended name prior to WW2).
We are lacking information on this particular vessel. If you have any information on this vessel past or present, please contact us.
Grants
-
January 2013
A Sustainability Award for £1000 towards the costs of remedial work was made from the Strategic Development Fund of National Historic Ships UK
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