Lazy Days | National Historic Ships

Registration number 2386

Status Registered

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Details

Function Leisure Craft

Subfunction Yacht

Location Ramsgate

Vessel type Motor Yacht

Current use Private use

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Cliff & Sons, Goole

Built in 1930

Hull material Wood

Rig None

Number of decks 1

Number of masts 1

Propulsion Motor

Number of engines 2

Primary engine type Inboard diesel

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam

8.79 feet (2.68m)

Depth

4.69 feet (1.43m)

Length: Overall

34.16 feet (10.42m)

History

LAZY DAYS is a wooden leisure craft of carvel construction with twin Ford Transit engines each delivering 100 hp. She was built by Cliff & Sons of Goole in 1930. During the Second World War, the vessel was pressed into service as a Dunkirk Little Ship, spending three days ferrying troops from East Beach amid fierce air attack. Later, the vessel was used by the Navy on the tidal Thames to locate mines. After the war, LAZY DAYS reverted to private ownership and she was rebuilt as new in 1952 and had a wheelhouse added. More recently, she had another major re-fit with a new teak deck, and a ferro-cement sheath for her hull.