Grace | National Historic Ships

Registration number 109

Status Registered

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Previous names

1906 - 2005 Britannia

Details

Function Fishing Vessel

Location Porthleven

Vessel type Cornish Lugger

Current use Private use

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Web address www.avon-boating.co.uk

Construction

Builder Roberts, Henry, Mevagissey

Built in 1906

Hull material Wood

Rig Lug

Number of decks 1

Number of masts 2

Propulsion Sail

Number of engines 1

Primary engine type Diesel

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam

12.59 feet (3.84m)

Depth

6.39 feet (1.95m)

Length: Overall

40.23 feet (12.27m)

Tonnage: Gross

23.00

History

Built in 1906 by Henry Roberts of Mevagissey, GRACE is a Cornish fishing lugger with a carvel built hull of oak frames, a pitch pine deck and iroko planking. Her current engine is a Lister 3 Diesel made in 1945. She has 2 masts dandy rigged. Her original name was BRITANNIA which she retained until 2005. Her early life was as a pilchard drifter and long liner in Cornish waters and then as a motor auxiliary fishing boat on the south coast. She is now privately owned and is one of the few remaining Cornish luggers from the days of true working sail.

Key dates

1903
Built by Henry Roberts of Mevagissy, Cornwall as a Cornish Lugger and named ‘Brittania’
1903-1920
Fished from Mevagissy
1920-1969
Fished from Porthleven and the South Coast as a Motor Auxilary/Sail Fishing Boat
1970
New owner
1976
New owner
2005
New owner
2014
New owner

Sources

McKee, Eric, Working Boats of Britain, Conway Maritime Press, 1983
Finch, Roger, Sailing Craft of the British Isles, William Collins & Son Ltd, 1976
March, Edgar J, Sailing Drifters: The story of the herring luggers of England, Scotland and the Isle of Man, David & Charles Ltd, 1969