Key details
- Current boat name
- Elizabeth
- Boat class
- 7264
- Function
- Service
- Type
Dimensions and specifications
- Length (m / ft)
- 6.4 / 21ft
- Beam (m / ft)
- 1.95 / 6ft 5in
- Leeward
- Keel
- Propulsion
- Engine
Design and build
- Date of build
- 1940
- Place of build
- Wallasey
Current status
- Present use
- Museum/MMM
History
Built in 1940 by Hornby of Wallasey to work in Liverpool docks for A Johnson & Sons Ltd. Of Birkenhead, master boatmen and dock pilots. ELIZABETH performed various duties such as carrying lines from ships to tugs or docks, transporting agents out to ships and other useful tasks around the docks. Locally called a gig boat, she would have had two crew and was powered by a Thorneycroft DB2 ‘Handy Billy’ 9 hp petrol engine. She was presented to the Merseyside Maritime Museum by the Liverpool Boatmen Association in 1979. November 2007