Registration number 1007
Status Archived
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Blue Trout - port side view, in dry dock (Photo comp entry)
Blue Trout - starboard side
Blue Trout out of the water - starboard side
Blue Trout - saloon
Blue Trout at sea
Blue Trout at South Dock in Surrey Quays
During Atlantic crossing
During Atlantic crossing
During Atlantic crossing
During Atlantic crossing
During Atlantic crossing
Blue Trout - port side view, mid Atlantic, calm weather (Photo comp entry)
Blue Trout - taken in Southampton with old cotton sails, c 1950
Blue Trout - taken in 1947, Camper & Nicholson's yard, Southampton
Blue Trout - taken in 1947, Camper & Nicholson's yard, Southampton
Blue Trout - taken in 1947, Camper & Nicholson's yard, Southampton
Blue Trout - taken in 1947, Camper & Nicholson's yard, Southampton
Blue Trout - taken in 1947, Camper & Nicholson's yard, Southampton
Blue Trout - in Corsica, 1957
Blue Trout - entering Navarin gulf in South of Greece. 1961
Blue Trout - entering Navarin gulf in South of Greece. 1961
Blue Trout in 1961, location not known
Blue Trout - at the entry of Corinth's canal in Greece, 1961

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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