Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Barnabas SS634"
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Volker Gries,
Festival Temps Fête sur Douarnenez 2012,
07/2012
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Festival Temps Fête sur Douarnenez 2012,
07/2012
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Sail Brest 2016,
07/2016
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Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Barnabas SS634 |
| Registered port: | Falmouth |
| Nation: | GBR |
| Type of ship: | Cornish Lugger |
| Year built: | 1881 |
| Yard: | Henry Trevorrow, St Ives, GBR |
| Overall length: | 11.95 m |
| Breadth: | 3.51 m |
| Draught: | 1.83 m |
| Ship's hull: | Holz / Wood |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 17 Jul 2014
- built by Henry Trevorrow at Porthgwidden Beach, St. Ives in 1881; registerred by the first owner Barnabas Thomas as a second class pilchard boat in October 1881, later registered as a first class mackerel driver (SS634).
- fishing for mackerel, sometimes as far West as the Isles of Scilly, and in mid-summer switched to catch herring in the Irish Sea, often fishing off Howth, near Dublin.
- 1917 fitted with a 26hp petrol/paraffin engine.
- continued to fish from St. Ives until 1954, then sold and converted to a yacht, kept in Falmouth.
- 1980 she was in the hands of the Maritime Trust who restored her in 1985, thanks to the generosity of Peter Cadbury, whose family had owned her in the 1950s.
- 1994 bought by the Cornish Maritime Trust.
- 1996 a new engine was fitted, but by 2001 she was unseaworthy.
- extensive full restoration started in 2005 with the aid of a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
- relaunched with a new engine in July 2006, sailed by the Cornish Maritime Trust from her base in Mousehole harbour.
Literature for further reading:
We recommend the following references for your further research of the ship. The references marked with have been included in the generation of the ship profile on this page.
Paul Brown
"Historic Sail. Britain's Surviving Working Craft"
The History Press 2013 ISBN: 978-0-7524-8581-2
(in Association with National Historic Ships UK)
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