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"Kestrel" London
Compiled by Frank Willmott.

Official number 105832
Reg. Tons 46
P.L.A. No. 9022
Gross ton 110
Owners No. 1361

Built at Lower Halstow by Eastwoods Ltd in 1896 (Alex Styles and Ambrose Letley)
in her early days she worked on the Essex side Shoeburyness brickfield, loading off the beach.

Skippers:- Isiah Humm, Isaac Baker, Charlie Edwards.

Capacity 159 cubic yards:
36-40,000 bricks
85 tons coal
50 tons cotton cake
400 quarter of wheat
504 bags of linseed cake
800 quarters barley plus 250 quarters oats - one freight

 

Did he mud work at Conyer
Took largest load out of Otterham in 1930s
54,000 bricks to Horseshoe ketty, Dagenham for the building of Ford.
1928 ammunition lighter.

Leaked very badly after lifting onto Butterfly Wharf Conyer on the 1953 freak high tide (was pushed off with a bulldozer).
Data is transcribed from handwritten ledgers prepared by Frank Willmott.
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