Name Resolute

RESOLUTE is a double ended ferry, built by Edwards & Co. Ltd. in 1903 at Millwall, London. She was first registered in 1903 at Yarmouth and her official number is 117539. She is clencher built and whale ended with no masts. Her original engine was by Plenty & Sons Ltd. and was a steam compound, with two direct vertical inverted cylinders, and 120 horsepower, capable of making 9.5 knots. The boiler was also by Plenty & Son and was made of steel, with a working pressure of 120 pounds. Her first owners were William Cornelius Harrison of 69 Southtown, Great Yarmouth with 43 shares and Charles Theodore Pagels of the same address, a master mariner with 21 shares. The master at that time was James Hitchins. RESOLUTE was sold to the Yarmouth and Gorleston Steamboat Company Ltd. on 9 April 1919. On 6 May 1946, she was bought by Eric William Jackson of 89 Bridge Road, Oulton Broad, who sold her to Pleasure Steamers Ltd., of 128 Bridge Road on 1 November that same year. She remained in that ownership until 29 May 1970, when she was purchased by the Veteran Steamship Society Ltd., of 9 Stortford Road, Dunmow. It was estimated that her restoration would cost between twenty and thirty thousand pounds and a mortgage was taken out by the Secretary, Richard Alfred Castle and David Edward Broadbent. However, RESOLUTE was sold again in June 1981 and is now a houseboat based at Pin Mill with all her machinery removed.

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