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Name: Ethel Alice

Certificate number: 1379

Status:

Registered

Function:

Fishing Vessel

Sub Functional Area:

Dredger

Type:

Oyster Smack

Location:

Faversham, Kent, England

Current use:

Private: operating

  • Length Overall:

    12.20 metres (40.00 feet)

  • Tonnage Not Known:

    0.00

  • Draught:

    1.40 metres (4.59 feet)

  • Maximum Breadth:

    2.93 metres (9.61 feet)
Ethel Alice - ETHEL ALICE - underway, bow from port side looking aft.

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History

Built in 1897 by Aldous of Brightlingsea, ETHEL ALICE is a fishing smack with a carvel built hull of iroko planking on oak frames and is a gaff rigged cutter with one timber mast. She has no engine. After a working life dredging for oysters off the Essex coast, she now races in local smack matches. There are few craft left in her class.

These brief histories are compiled from details supplied by vessel owners and enthusiasts and from various reference works. National Historic Ships would be grateful for any corrections of facts or additional information for inclusion. Please contact ron.ellis@nationalhistoricships.org.uk

Subsequent developments

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