Swallow | National Historic Ships

Registration number 69

Status Registered

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Details

Function Leisure Craft

Subfunction Launch

Location Windermere

Vessel type Saloon Launch

Current use Museum based

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Web address https://www.lakelandarts.org.uk/windermere-jetty-collection

Construction

Builder Shepherd, Neil, Bowness.

Built in 1911

Hull material Wood

Rig None

Number of decks 1

Propulsion Steam

Number of engines 1

Primary engine type Steam triple expansion

Boiler type Locomotive

Boilermaker H A McEwen (Boiler Repairs) Ltd, Cowling

Boiler year 1990

Boiler fuel coal

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam

8.00 feet (2.44m)

Depth

2.98 feet (0.91m)

Length: Overall

46.46 feet (14.17m)

History

Built 1911 by Neil Shepherd, Bowness on Windermere for W Warburton, a launch of teak, carvel construction with a triple expansion engine built by W Sisson & Co.Ltd., Gloucester. Subsequently owned by J Parker, Kendal and L D Goldsmith, she was acquired by the Windermere Steamboat Museum in 1984 and remains there on display.

Grants

April - June 2010
A Sustainability Grant of £1000 for the costs of a volunteer working group was made from the Strategic Development Fund of National Historic Ships
April - June 2010
A Sustainability Grant of £500 for dry docking was made from the Strategic Development Fund of National Historic Ships
2007/2008
A Sustainability Grant of £120 for new signs/interpretative boards was made from the Strategic Development Fund of National Historic Ships
2007/2008
A Sustainability Grant of £600 for engine repairs was made from the Strategic Development Fund of National Historic Ships

Sources

Brouwer, Norman J, International Register of Historic Ships, Anthony Nelson, Edition 2, 1993
Steamboat Register: An illustrated Register of surviving steam vessels in the British Isles, Steam Boat Association of Great Britain, Edition 6, May 1994
Windermere Steamboat Museum and Motorboat Collection, Windermere Nautical Trust Ltd, 1988