Registration number 440
Status Registered
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Details

Function Passenger Vessel
Subfunction Excursion
Location Bridlington
Vessel type Excursion
Current use Commercial Activity
Available to hire Yes
Available for excursions Yes

Construction

Builder Cook, Gemmel & Welton Ltd, Beverley
Built in 1947
Hull material Steel
Rig None
Number of decks 1
Propulsion Motor
Number of engines 1
Primary engine type Diesel
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
18.98 feet (5.79m)
Depth
4.98 feet (1.52m)
Length: Overall
79.93 feet (24.38m)
Tonnage: Gross
70.00

History

Built in 1947 by Cook Walton & Gemmel of Beverley, YORKSHIRE BELLE is a passenger vessel used for pleasure trips and based at Bridlington. She has a riveted and welded steel hull and two Gardner diesel engines 8L3 models built in 1951. She is the last remaining Bridlington pleasure boat of the six that once operated from the 1920s to 1950s.

Update, August 2020: Mr Jack Pockley was skipper and part-owner from 1947 until he retired in 1973. 

Calls for the public to help save Bridlington's Yorkshire Belle | Calendar | ITV News

Key dates

  • 1947

    Built by Cook, Gemmel & Welton Ltd, Beverley

  • 1947

    Began pleasure trips out of Bridlington

  • late 1970s

    Served as standby ferry on the River Humber

  • 1947-1973

    Mr Jack Pockley was skipper and part-owner from 1947 until he retired in 1973. 

  • 1982

    Purchased by Roy Simpson and Peter Richardson

  • late 1990s

    Served as tender to cruise ship VISTAMA at Bridlington

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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