Sweet Promise | National Historic Ships

Registration number 2399

Status Registered

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Details

Function Fishing Vessel

Location Faversham

Vessel type Fifie

Current use Private use

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Weatherhead, William & Son, Cockenzie

Built in 1931

Hull material Wood

Rig Gaff Ketch

Number of decks 1

Number of masts 2

Propulsion Sail

Number of engines 1

Primary engine type Inboard diesel

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam

10.16 feet (3.10m)

Depth

4.92 feet (1.50m)

Length: Overall

42.62 feet (13.00m)

History

SWEET PROMISE was built as a Fifie, a fishing vessel of wooden carvel construction, by Weatherheads of Cockenzie in 1931. Her present engine is a BMC diesel, 56 hp. She worked as a fishing vessel until 1972. Later she was owned by Lt.Cdr Buster Crabb the well known Navy diver and was impounded by Dover Customs for smuggling Swiss watches. Owned by a private owner 1994-2018 in Lowestoft, where she had a three and a half year rebuild and restoration. Since 2018 owned by another private owner and relocated to Faversham, Kent.

Update, December 2024: Vessel for sale.

Key dates

1931
Built as a Fifie, a fishing vessel of wooden carvel construction, by Weatherheads of Cockenzie
1931-1972
Operated as a fishing vessel.
1994-2018
Owned by private owner and berthed at Lowestoft.
2018-2019
Bought by new private owner in 2018 and relocated to Faversham, Kent, in 2019.

Sources

Classic Boat: Sweet Promise - Buster Crabb's sailing Fifie, January 2013
Classic Boat: Experience - Playing prop forward, January 2013
Classic Boat, January, 2007