Registration number 69
Status Registered
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Details

Function Leisure Craft
Subfunction Launch
Location Windermere
Vessel type Saloon Launch
Current use Museum based
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Shepherd, Neil, Bowness.
Built in 1911
Hull material Wood
Rig None
Number of decks 1
Propulsion Steam
Number of engines 1
Primary engine type Steam triple expansion
Boiler type Locomotive
Boilermaker H A McEwen (Boiler Repairs) Ltd, Cowling
Boiler year 1990
Boiler fuel coal

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
8.00 feet (2.44m)
Depth
2.98 feet (0.91m)
Length: Overall
46.46 feet (14.17m)

History

Built 1911 by Neil Shepherd, Bowness on Windermere for W Warburton, a launch of teak, carvel construction with a triple expansion engine built by W Sisson & Co.Ltd., Gloucester. Subsequently owned by J Parker, Kendal and L D Goldsmith, she was acquired by the Windermere Steamboat Museum in 1984 and remains there on display.

Grants

  • April - June 2010

    A Sustainability Grant of £1000 for the costs of a volunteer working group was made from the Strategic Development Fund of National Historic Ships

  • April - June 2010

    A Sustainability Grant of £500 for dry docking was made from the Strategic Development Fund of National Historic Ships

  • 2007/2008

    A Sustainability Grant of £120 for new signs/interpretative boards was made from the Strategic Development Fund of National Historic Ships

  • 2007/2008

    A Sustainability Grant of £600 for engine repairs was made from the Strategic Development Fund of National Historic Ships

Sources

Brouwer, Norman J, International Register of Historic Ships, Anthony Nelson, Edition 2, 1993
Steamboat Register: An illustrated Register of surviving steam vessels in the British Isles, Steam Boat Association of Great Britain, Edition 6, May 1994 
Windermere Steamboat Museum and Motorboat Collection, Windermere Nautical Trust Ltd, 1988

Own this vessel?

If you are the owner of this vessel and would like to provide more details or updated information, please contact info@nationalhistoricships.org.uk

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