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Registration number
416
Status
Registered
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Details
Function
Leisure Craft
Subfunction
Yacht
Location
Weybridge
Vessel type
Motor Yacht
Current use
Unknown
Available to hire
No
Available for excursions
No
Construction
Builder
Rampart, Southampton
Built in
1937
Hull material
Wood
Rig
None
Number of decks
1
Number of masts
2
Propulsion
Motor
Number of engines
1
Primary engine type
Diesel
Boiler type
None
Boilermaker
None
Dimensions
Breadth: Beam
8.98 feet
(2.74m)
Depth
4.30 feet
(1.31m)
Length: Overall
40.00 feet
(12.20m)
Tonnage: Gross
16.00
History
LADY LOU is a motor yacht built in 1937 by Ramparts, Southampton. She has a composite hull of pitch pine planking on bent oak timbers, pitch pine stringers and grown oak floors suspending a 1 ton iron keel. During the Second World War, she took part in the Dunkirk evacuation of 1940, ferrying troops to ships waiting offshore. After the war she was returned to her original owner Parkestone. In 1953 she was on the Thames before being sold in 1959 to owners who kept her on the Thames for another 20 years. She was then bought again and was based on the Thames at Shepperton.
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Key dates
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1937
Vessel built by Ramparts, Southampton
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1940
Vessel took part in the Dunkirk evacuation
-
1953
Vessel under private ownership and based on the Thames
Sources
Brann, Christian, The Little Ships of Dunkirk: 1940-1990, Collectors Books Ltd, 1989
Classic Boat: St George's Crossing, August 2000
Classic Boat: Lady Lou, June 1998
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