Details
Function
Fishing Vessel
Subfunction
Dredger
Location
Brightlingsea
Vessel type
Essex Smack
Current use
Private use
Available to hire
No
Available for excursions
No
Construction
Builder
Walter Cook, Maldon
Built in
1888
Hull material
Wood
Rig
Gaff Cutter
Number of decks
1
Number of masts
1
Propulsion
Sail
Boiler type
None
Boilermaker
None
Dimensions
Breadth: Beam
10.00 feet
(3.05m)
Depth
3.50 feet
(1.07m)
Length: Overall
34.50 feet
(10.52m)
Tonnage: Gross
10.00
History
NELLIE is an Essex smack, a fishing vessel of carvel construction, larch on oak frames. She was built by Walter Cook of Maldon in 1888 and was registered as CK276 at Colchester by George Arthur Vince in February 1920, for trawling and dredging. The vessel is an example of a small Maldon oyster smack that worked in the River Colne and Blackwater Estuary area of the East Coast.
Update, March 2021: Reported that NELLIE has been sold to a new owner in Cornwall, but we have been unable to confirm this.
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