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Name: Ransome

Certificate number: 369

Status:

Registered

Function:

Passenger Vessel

Sub Functional Area:

Launch

Type:

Launch

Location:

Coniston Water, Cumbria, England

Current use:

Commercial trade

  • Length Overall:

    12.20 metres (40.00 feet)

  • Tonnage Not Known:

    0.00

  • Draught:

    0.84 metres (2.75 feet)

  • Maximum Breadth:

    3.20 metres (10.50 feet)
Ransome -

Web address

http://www.conistonlaunch.co.uk

Builder

History

Built 1923 by A W Clemens, Portsmouth, a passenger vessel with a capacity for 54 passengers. She has a wood hull of pitch pine on oak frames and is of carvel construction and her engine is a Solomon Technologies ST74 solar electric motor of 12 hp, powered from a 144dc battery bank. This was installed in December 2004.

Between 1939/1946 she was an Admiralty supply vessel. There is a gap in her history until 1967 when she was owned by French Brothers on the River Thames and operated at Windsor and Shepperton until 1980 – during this period she had a refit. After another gap until1994 when she was bought and taken to the Lake District where she operates on Coniston Water.

Between 1923/1946 she was named EMPRESS and between 1946/1994 MONARCH I, acquiring her present name on her transfer to the Lake District.

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

None notified, please let us know if you have any additional information.

Previous names

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