Lurline of Ipswich | National Historic Ships

Registration number 2798

Status Registered

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Details

Function Leisure Craft

Subfunction Yacht

Location London

Vessel type Ketch

Current use Private use

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Howard, Tom

Built in 1914

Hull material Wood

Number of masts 2

Propulsion Motor

Number of engines 1

Primary engine type Diesel

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Length: Overall

37.00 feet (11.28m)

Breadth: Beam

9.00 feet (2.74m)

Depth

3.33 feet (1.02m)

Air Draft

7.00 feet (2.13m)

Tonnage: Gross

11.58

History

LURLINE OF IPSWICH is a leisure craft of timber carvel construction built by Tom Howard of Maldon in 1914. The vessel was built as an auxiliary ketch and presently has a 6 cylinder Ford engine installed in 2000.

As a survivor of two world wars she has considerable history and assisted at the Dunkirk evacualtion during the second world war and regularly returns to Dunkirk as a member of the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships.

She has been in the same ownership since 1985 and took part in the Her Majesty the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Regatta on the River Thames, London, in 2012.