Registration number 269
Status Archived
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Details

Function Passenger Vessel
Subfunction Excursion
Location Oxford
Vessel type Excursion
Current use Private use
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No
Info required Yes

Construction

Builder Salter Brothers Ltd, Oxford
Built in 1889
Rig None
Number of decks 1
Propulsion Motor
Number of engines 1
Primary engine type Diesel
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
11.48 feet (3.50m)
Depth
3.77 feet (1.15m)
Length: Overall
65.97 feet (20.12m)
Tonnage: Gross
21.00

History

Built in 1889 by Edwin Clark & Co, Brimscombe, Gloucester for Salter Bros, Oxford and first named OXFORD, this is a passenger vessel with a capacity for 141 passengers. She was sold to J T Phelps of Putney in 1921 and renamed GAIETY. Subsequently she was sold to Bowers & Phelps in 1927/28 and was later based at Evesham and operated on the River Avon. She was bought by her present owner in 1988 and is currently out of service at Windsor.

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Key dates

  • 1889

    Built by Edwin Clarke and Co of Brimscombe for the Salter Bros as a Passenger Vessel and named ‘Oxford 1

  • 1921

    Sold to J T Phelps and renamed ‘Gaiety’

  • 1927

    Sold to Bowers & Phelps and was used on the River Avon and based at Evesham

  • 1978

    Sold to the French Brothers who used her on the River Thames

  • 2012

    She took part in the Jubilee Flotilla

Sources

Hamer, Geoffrey, Trip Out 1995/6 - A Guide to the Passenger Boat Services of the British Isles, G P Hamer, 1995

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