Silver Wraith | National Historic Ships

Registration number 2566

Status Archived

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Silver Wraith - bow view in her mooring prior to work starting

Details

Function Leisure Craft

Subfunction Yacht

Location Unknown

Vessel type Yacht - Motor

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