SB Kitty (1895)

Kitty alongside in Rochester 2017
History
United Kingdom
NameKitty
Owner
BuilderJohn and Herbert Cann, of Gashouse Creek, Harwich.
LaunchedApril 1895
IdentificationOfficial Number 105418 [1]
FateCharter yacht
General characteristics
Class and typeThames barge
Tonnage65 GRT
Length82.13 feet (25.03 m)
Beam19.38 feet (5.91 m)
Draught6.59 feet (2.01 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planSpritsail bowsprit
NotesWebsite: http://www.top-sail.co.uk/the-barges/kitty/

Kitty is a wooden Thames sailing barge in the bowsprit class of 65 tons. She was built in Harwich in 1895.[2] She is No. 209 on the National Historic Ships Register.[3]

Construction

There were two branches of the Horlocks family operating from Mistley. The business was grain- bringing imported Canadian grain from London to the flour mills in Essex. Horatio (‘Raish’) Horlock and three co-owners ordered the Kitty, he however had most of the shares[3]

Thames barges were built for strength: Kitty was known for her speed. They had flat bottoms to allow them to be easily beached or lie on the river mud, and were rigged to allow them to be operated by two men and possibly a lad. They were built in bargeyards adjacent to a river or creek on bargeblocks- a series of trestles raised about a metre from the compacted ground, that allowed working access above and below.

The Kitty is 82.13 feet (25.03 m) long and 19.38 feet (5.91 m) broad. She is almost identical in size and layout to the well documented Kathleen. She has a double-skinned hull of oak frames and 4 inches (10 cm) oak floors, with 3-inch (1.5 inches (3.8 cm) doubled) and solid 4 inches (10 cm) pitch pine planking. Her keelson is a 70 feet (21.34 m) long piece of 16 inches (41 cm) square pine,[3] while the Kathleen used metal.

History

Kitty was built for transporting grain from London and Ipswich, but could also ship timber, malt, flour, bricks, grit and general cargoes. She was generally an estuary barge not working the East Coast or the channel.

In the First World War she transported coke and stores to Calais and Boulogne for the army then reverted to the London river and the Essex coast. She was sold in 1933 to Francis and Gilders Ltd, of Colchester, who in March 1951 merged with the London and Rochester Trading Company.[4] She traded solely under sail until July 1955. During this period in 1949 she was involved in an accident in the Surrey Commercial Docks when her deck cargo shifted and she took a sudden list and lost it colliding with the motor coaster Grampian Coast. Though this damaged her stem, it was patched up and was sold. She then was derigged and worked as a timber lighter for Brown & Co, of Chelmsford, on the Blackwater.[3]

Francis & Gilders, Ltd. barges in 1949[5]
Name Built Year Tons Official no. Notes
Alaric of London Sandwich 1901 73 105560 ex- Shamrock
British Empire of Colchester Brightlingsea 1899 50 109616
Centaur of Harwich Harwich 1895 60 99460
Clara of London Sittingbourne 1896 60 105829
Colonia of Harwich Sandwich 1897 62 105422
Dawn of Maldon Maldon 1897 54 105902
Ethel Ada of Ipswich Ipswich 1897 48 109202
Falconet of Rochester Strood 1899 49 110951
George Smeed of Rochester Murston
Murston
1882
1922
64 84430 Rebuilt
Kitty of Harwich Harwich 1895 65 105408
Lady Helen of London Rochester 1900 57 112762
Leslie West of London Gravesend 1898 50 104941
Mirosa of Maldon Maldon 1892 49 96485 ex- Ready
Saltcote Belle of Maldon Maldon 1895 49 96490
Varuna of London East Greenwich 1907 59 125614

In 1964 John Fairbrother, trading as Maldon Yacht & Barge Charter Co Ltd, bought and was re-rigged and refurbished as a twelve berth charter vessel. He raced her in the revived barge matches. She took a first in the 1974 Pin Mill class B, and in the 1975 Medway bowsprit class. Then she was bought in 1976 by David Anderson who de-rigged her and used her as floating restaurant at Hayling Island. In April 1985 she was bought was Patrick Keen of Portsmouth who re-rigged her and installed a Perkins six-cylinder diesel engine and she became a charter yacht again: now named My Kitty. In 1988 ownership passed to Microwave Exhibitions and Publishers Ltd. and in 1990 she was bought by Roger Marriott, and was renamed Kitty. She was based on the Solent and used for charter work.[3]

In 2003 she had a new mainsail cut by James Lawrence, of Brightlingsea and she was refitted at Maldon in 2006. She has eight berths, and is licensed to take 46 passengers (plus four crew) to sea. In September 2007 she relocated to Maldon.[3]

Kitty in the 2017 parade of sail

See also

References

  1. ^ "Active Barges Page 1". www.sailingbargeresearch.org.uk. Sailing Barge Research Society. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  2. ^ Carr 1951.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Kitty . National Historic Ships". www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Centaur". Thames Sailing Barge Trust. 11 December 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  5. ^ Carr 1951, p. 310

Bibliography

  • Carr, Frank (1951). Sailing Barges (Revised ed.). Peter Davies Ltd.
  • Benham, Hervey; Kershaw, Philip; Finch, Roger (1986). Down tops'l : the story of the East Coast sailing-barges (3rd. ed.). London: Harrap. ISBN 0-245-54487-9.

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