Details
Construction
Dimensions
History
Built in 1925, BRIGHTLINGSEA is a passenger vessel with the capacity for 150 passengers. and operated for around 55 years.
In WW2 she was used as a tender for the Harwich-based destroyers.
She was then based in St. Osyth and has been converted to a houseboat.
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Key dates
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1925
Built by the Rowbridge Ironworks, Colchester
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2007
£3000 grant made from Strategic Development Fund of National Historic Ships UK
Grants
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March 2007
A grant of £3000 to cover the costs of fire protection and evacuation measures was made from the Strategic Development Fund of National Historic Ships.
Sources
Geoffrey Hamer, Trip Out 1995/6 - A Guide to the Passenger Boat Services of the British Isles (1995) pub: G P Hamer
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