Registration number 2848
Status Archived
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Details

Function Leisure Craft
Subfunction Yacht
Location Unknown
Vessel type Ketch
Archive reason Overseas Watch List
Current use Ongoing conservation
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No
Info required Yes

Construction

Builder Dickie, A M & Sons Ltd, Tarbert
Built in 1927
Rig Ketch
Number of decks 1
Number of masts 2
Propulsion Motor
Number of engines 1
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Length: Overall
58.00 feet (17.68m)
Breadth: Beam
12.50 feet (3.81m)
Depth
7.00 feet (2.13m)
Tonnage: Gross
35.00

History

MOONSHINE is a ketch of carvel teak and oak construction, built by A M Dickie of Tarbert in 1927 and is now based in Grenada where she was written off by insurers in 2004 following damage during a hurricane.

Although this vessel is on the Overseas Watch List, we are lacking information about this particular vessel. If you have any information about this vessel, past or present, please contact us.

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