Beth | National Historic Ships

Registration number 1407

Status Archived

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Details

Function Leisure Craft

Subfunction Yacht

Location Unknown

Vessel type Yacht - Motor

Archive reason Disposed

Current use Unknown

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Cox & King, Wivenhoe

Built in 1919

Hull material Wood

Rig Ketch

Number of decks 2

Number of masts 2

Propulsion Motor

Number of engines 1

Primary engine type Diesel

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam

10.59 feet (3.23m)

Depth

4.59 feet (1.40m)

Length: Overall

49.97 feet (15.24m)

Tonnage: Gross

20.00

History

BETH is a ketch rigged motor yacht, built by Cox & King at Wivenhoe in 1919. She was registered in London and her official number was 165643. Her hull is carvel built of pitch pine on oak and clench fastened, with a teak wheelhouse. She has a pointed bow with a plumb straight stem and a transom stern. Her current engine is a BMC Seamaster diesel, with six cylinders, made in approximately 1964. She is believed to have been used by the Royal Navy as a sailing trawler, but was decommissioned in 1926 and sold into private ownership. In the Second World War, she was requisitioned again and served in the Western Approaches and Swansea Waters. After the war, she re-entered private ownership.

Vessel reported broken up in 2012.