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Registration number
1007
Status
Archived
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Details
Function
Leisure Craft
Subfunction
Yacht
Location
Unknown
Vessel type
Pleasure Yacht
Archive reason
More information required
Current use
Unknown
Available to hire
No
Available for excursions
No
Info required
Yes
Construction
Builder
King, William & Sons, Burnham on Crouch
Built in
1937
Hull material
Wood
Rig
Bermudan Ketch
Number of decks
1
Propulsion
Motor
Number of engines
1
Primary engine type
Diesel
Boiler type
None
Boilermaker
None
Dimensions
Breadth: Beam
13.90 feet
(4.24m)
Depth
8.30 feet
(2.53m)
Length: Overall
60.00 feet
(18.30m)
Tonnage: Gross
33.00
History
BLUE TROUT is a wooden yacht built in 1937 by W. King, Burnham-on-Crouch and designed by Norman E. Dallimore of Littlehampton. She has a carvel built hull of teak planking on oak frames and an internal combustion engine by Mercedes Benz/Nanni.
Between 1947 and 1965, the vessel spent many months sailing the Mediterranean Sea. When she travelled from Southampton to Antibes, France in 1947 she had a National engine and a British captain named Captain Johnson who left the ship in Marseille before arriving in Antibes because there was no more whisky on board!
In 1948, the internal commodities were rebuilt in Marseille, with sycamore wood, and a new GM 2 cylinder 71 engine was installed.
BLUE TROUT was sold in 1965 to a Captain Michel Feuga who transformed the vessel from being a cutter into a ketch.
Update, November 2023: Under new ownership.
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