Key details
- Current boat name
- Shipmates
- Boat class
- 7649
- Function
- Fishing and Hunting
- Type
Dimensions and specifications
- Length (m / ft)
- 4.53 / 14ft 11in
- Beam (m / ft)
- 1.7 / 5ft 6in
- Propulsion
- Oar
Design and build
- Date of build
- 1910c
- Place of build
- Great Yarmouth
Current status
- Present use
- Museum/T&T
History
SHIPMATES is a Yarmouth Beach Skiff built by Cubitt in 1910. She was used for pleasure trips from the beach in the summer and for fishing in the autumn. As a pleasure boat she could carry eight passengers and she was the last rowing boat used in this trade. Fishing for herring close inshoe SHIPMATES once caught 5000 in one night. During the 1953 floods she was used to rescue people from their flooded homes in Yarmouth. Bought for the museum. GH Nov 2010