Winsome | National Historic Ships

Registration number 3469

Status Registered

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Details

Function Leisure Craft

Subfunction Yacht

Location Yarmouth

Vessel type Yacht - Motor

Current use Private use

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Dickie, A M & Sons Ltd, Bangor

Built in 1927

Hull material Wood

Rig None

Number of decks 1

Propulsion Motor

Number of engines 2

Primary engine type Diesel

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Length: Overall

40.00 feet (12.19m)

Breadth: Beam

10.50 feet (3.20m)

Depth

2.67 feet (0.81m)

Air Draft

8.83 feet (2.69m)

Tonnage: Gross

12.49

History

WINSOME is a Motor Yacht of teak and oak construction built by Dikkes of Bangor in 1927 for Edgar Duerr of the Duerr marmalade family, who was an inventor and keen yachtsman. She was used on the Thames in the 1930s and was also the committee boat for the Classic Boat Association.

During the Second World War she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and was put on the lakes of Snowdonia.

Under current ownership since 2017, she has been rebuilt by Lallows of Cowes and now lies at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.

Key dates

1927
Leisure craft designed by D Dawson and built by Dikkies of Bangor for Edgar Duerr
1930s
Committee boat for the Classic Boat Association on the Thames
1940/45
Requisitioned by Royal Navy for war service on lakes of Snowdonia
1945
Sold by Edgar Duerr
1999
Bought by present owner and two petrol engines replaced