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sv THISTLE
built by William Hamilton & Co Port Glasgow,
Yard No 121
Propulsion: Engine added in 1949 M3cy(2cy?) 4SA 44bhp Kelvin-Bergius
Built: 1895
Ship Type: Spritsail barge
Tonnage: 79g/nrt (1903 107g 79n; 1949 114g 84n)
Length: 86.0 feet
Breadth: 19.6 feet
Draught: 7.2 feet depth
Owner History:
Henry Covington, London
1909 Harry, Fletcher & Frederick Covington, London
1910 H Covington & Sons Ltd, London
1940 London & Rochester Trading Co Ltd, Rochester
1972 Barry Bowes, Maidstone
1978 Angela Olsen, Bungay (Fritz Wolfgang, Woodbridge?)
1979 Henry McLaren, London (later mng Topsail Charters Ltd, Maldon)
2001 Thistle 1895 Ltd, Burnham (same mng)
Status: Active - 2009
Web site: http://www.thamesbarge.org.uk/barges/models/thistleifos2003.html
Remarks:
ON 105727
Said to be the only Thames spritsail barge built in Scotland
Requisitioned during WW2
Steel sprit damaged in heavy weather in 1948 and towed to Rochester, where she was reduced to a motor barge in 1949
1972 retired from commercial trading and used as houseboat on the Medway
Part restored at Woodbridge in 1980, then a houseboat at Battersea
1987 restored at Greenwich to staysail barge for passenger charters
Previous update by Colin Campbell
Photo supplied by David Asprey (on maiden voyage 1895)
Last updated: by David Asprey from the original records by Stuart Cameron
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