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Registration number
440
Status
Registered
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Details
Function
Passenger Vessel
Subfunction
Excursion
Location
Bridlington
Vessel type
Excursion
Current use
Commercial Activity
Available to hire
Yes
Available for excursions
Yes
Construction
Builder
Cook, Gemmel & Welton Ltd, Beverley
Built in
1947
Hull material
Steel
Rig
None
Number of decks
1
Propulsion
Motor
Number of engines
1
Primary engine type
Diesel
Boiler type
None
Boilermaker
None
Dimensions
Breadth: Beam
18.98 feet
(5.79m)
Depth
4.98 feet
(1.52m)
Length: Overall
79.93 feet
(24.38m)
Tonnage: Gross
70.00
History
Built in 1947 by Cook Walton & Gemmel of Beverley, YORKSHIRE BELLE is a passenger vessel used for pleasure trips and based at Bridlington. She has a riveted and welded steel hull and two Gardner diesel engines 8L3 models built in 1951. She is the last remaining Bridlington pleasure boat of the six that once operated from the 1920s to 1950s.
Update, August 2020: Mr Jack Pockley was skipper and part-owner from 1947 until he retired in 1973.
Calls for the public to help save Bridlington's Yorkshire Belle | Calendar | ITV News
Key dates
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1947
Built by Cook, Gemmel & Welton Ltd, Beverley
-
1947
Began pleasure trips out of Bridlington
-
late 1970s
Served as standby ferry on the River Humber
-
1947-1973
Mr Jack Pockley was skipper and part-owner from 1947 until he retired in 1973.
-
1982
Purchased by Roy Simpson and Peter Richardson
-
late 1990s
Served as tender to cruise ship VISTAMA at Bridlington
Sources
Hamer, Geoffrey, Trip Out 1995/6 - A Guide to the Passenger Boat Services of the British Isles, G P Hamer, 1995
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