Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Good Intent LO136"
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Technical data of the sailing ship:
Name: | Good Intent LO136 |
Registered port: | Woodbridge |
Nation: | GBR |
Type of rigging: | KUTTER |
Type of ship: | Thames Bawley Smack |
Year built: | 1860 |
Yard: | John & Robert Starbuck, Gravesend, GBR |
Overall length: | 11.58 m |
Breadth: | 4.27 m |
Draught: | 1.83 m |
Ship's hull: | Holz / Wood |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 25 Jan 2022
- built 1860 by John and Robert Starbuck at Gravesend, GBR for owners of Harwich, GBR; used for fishing under sail based in Faversham, Kent, GBR for 67 years until 1927.
- 1936 salvaged from the riverbed where she was laid and forgotten to convert her into a yacht, further change of ownership in 1939.
- used as a weapons store at a hidden place near Walton-on-the-Naze during WW2.
- sold then to P. Conly from Essex and used as a private yacht until 1988.
- 1988 bought by Frank Knight who ran a boatyard in Woodbridge, Suffolk, GBR to restore her, only little progress until 1992.
- sold in 1992 to new owners who finished restoring the ship by 1994 and since then participate in Smack & Barge Races in the region.
- 2020 relocated to Milton Creek, Sittingbourne, GBR where she will be fundamentally overhauled at the Dolphin Sailing Barge Museum.