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SPRINGFIELD

Type/Class:  Passenger Vessel
Designer:  F. C. Morgan Giles
Builder:  Morgan Giles Ltd
Year:  Being researched but between 1922 & 1927
Yard Number:  Uknown at present
Original Sail Number:  N/A
Construction:  Teak on Oak
LOA:  32ft 5ins
LWL:  Uknown at present
Beam:  Uknown at present
Draft:  Uknown at present
Displacement:  Uknown at present
Thames Tonnage:  Uknown at present
Home Port:  Dartmouth, Devon.
Owner:  Mr G Barnett
Previous Ownership:  Mr Phil Riley - 1989 - 2001
Mr G Barnett - October 2010 - present

Known History:

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Image 1 - October 2011. SPRINGFIELD on her new mooring on the River Dart.

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Image 2 - On the beach in St Mary's.

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Image 3 - Showing her under water profile.

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Image 4 - Her early days in the Isles of Scilly.

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Image 5 - Presumably now in the service as one of the Thompson family motor launches.

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Image 8 - Note the raised planking up forward and the addition of the wind screen.

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Image 9 - She also earnt her living undertaking some inshore fishing and crabbing work.

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Image 10 - One of the Thompson adverts - the family owned her for at least 40 years.