Key details
- Current boat name
- Naiad Errant
- Boat class
- 7286
- Number
- 167764
- Function
- Sports and Leisure
- Type
Dimensions and specifications
- Length (m / ft)
- 9.75 / 32ft
- Beam (m / ft)
- 2.51 / 8ft 3in
- Leeward
- Keel
- Masts
- 0ne
- Propulsion
- Engine
Design and build
- Designer
- Osborne W
- Date of build
- 1938/9
- Place of build
- Littlehampton
Current status
- Present use
- Sailing
History
Built by William Osborne at Littlehampton in 1938/39 and kept on the Thames until requsitioned in May 1940.. NAIAD ERRANT is an accredited Dunkirk Little Ship. Her exploits, which included four trips to Dunkirk under the command of Able Seaman Smuel Palmer and the rescue of approximately 500 troops, are described in Brann 'The Little Ships of Dunkirk'. Her original twin Morris engines were replaced in 1982 with two Perkins 4107 diesels. In 1999 she was damaged and nearly sank near Rochester but was saved and underwent a major restoration in 2001. April 2010.