Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Marian"
Photos of the sailing ship:
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Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Brest/Douarnenez 2004,
07/2004
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Brest/Douarnenez 2008,
07/2008
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Fêtes Maritimes Brest 2024,
07/2024
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Marian |
| Ex-names: | Colaba |
| Registered port: | Falmouth |
| Nation: | GBR |
| Type of rigging: | KUTTER |
| Type of ship: | Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter |
| Year built: | 1889 |
| Yard: | Hambly & Sons, Cardiff, GBR |
| Overall length: | 19.20 m |
| Length (hull): | 15.20 m |
| Breadth: | 3.85 m |
| Draught: | 2.30 m |
| Ship's hull: | Holz / Wood |
| Power: | 65 PS |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 07 Feb 2010
- Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter built in 1889 by Hambly & Sons in Cardiff, GBR.
- first operated by John Henry Morse until 1915.
- in the late 1910s or early 1920s converted into a yacht.
- bought by aircraft designer Johnny Aherne-Heron, renamed "Colaba", intending to ocean sailing, but because of WWII she remained in a mud berth on the river Hamble.
- at the end of the 1950s she was briefly sailed by TV producer William Taylor.
- eventually derigged and converted into a houseboat.
- in the 1980s begin auf a 8-year restoration for Peter Stuysted in Bristol, GBR participation in classic boat regattas in southern England and Brittany.
- bought by Dominic Ziegler, major rebuilding at Gweek Boatyard by a team of Cornish boatbuilders, relaunched in the autumn of 2002.