Rawanah | National Historic Ships

Registration number 3019

Status Registered

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Details

Function Leisure Craft

Subfunction Yacht

Location Crinan

Vessel type Ketch

Current use Private use

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder King & Sons, H, Pinmill

Built in 1935

Hull material Wood

Rig Gaff Ketch

Number of decks 1

Number of masts 2

Propulsion Motor

Number of engines 1

Primary engine type Diesel

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Length: Overall

35.00 feet (10.67m)

Breadth: Beam

10.00 feet (3.05m)

Depth

4.50 feet (1.37m)

Air Draft

40.00 feet (12.19m)

Tonnage: Gross

10.00

History

RAWANAH is a gaff ketch designed by Maurice Griffiths and built by Harry King & Sons, Suffolk, in 1935. She was registered in Ipswich to Hubert Arnold Brown, a good friend of Maurice Griffiths and who had commissioned the build, and then the vessel passed to the Jersey Register on 3 November 1950 when she was bought by the Hollick brothers at St Lawrence, Jersey.

She features in Maurice Griffiths' book 'Little Ships & Shoal Waters' recounting a voyage he made, together with Hubert Brown, from Oban to East Tarbert. The book also contains line drawings and sail plan. She was in the ownership of one family for 42 years.

Between 2005 and 2015, RAWANAH sailed thousands of miles to the Outer and Inner Hebrides, Orkney and Faroe Isles, Scilly Isles, Ireland three times including a circumnavigation in July 2008. She won the 'Cock o' the Bristol Channel Race' with courses of 80 and 50 miles competing against the Bristol Channel cutter fleet. In all those sea miles RAWANAH proved herself to be a sea kindly, robust vessel, gentle on the helm, making good passage time and capable in rough weather.

Key dates

1935
Built by Harry King of Pin Mill
1950
Passed to the Jersey Register
2010
Registration lapsed and cancelled in 2014
2001
New large staysail fitted
2003
Topsail fitted along with small staysail, running chute, mizzen staysail, large lightweight jib, flying jib and sotrm trysail
2004
Engine installed to replace the original british Thorneycroft petrol engine of about 15 bhp 2-cylinder, 3.5x4.5 bore/stoke
2004
Engine installed to replace the original british Thorneycroft petrol engine of about 15 bhp 2-cylinder, 3.5x4.5 bore/stoke
2008
New mizzen installed
2000-2010
Sailed thousands of miles to the Outer & Inner Hebrides, Orkney and Faroe isles, Scilly Isles and Ireland including a circumnavigation in July 2008