Higre
Higre
The remains
Higre
Plaque at Purton
Specification
| Name | P.o.R | Description | Dates |
| Higre | Gloucester 2/76 Gloucester 4/02 Gloucester 2/37 |
Wd F sc (Tw)
dumb |
1876 – 1952 |
| Official No. 69914 | Code N/A | ||
| Builders Samuel Hipwood - Gloucester | |||
| Dimensions (1876) | Length 73.6 ft | Breath 17.7 ft | Depths 5.2 ft |
| Dimensions (1902) | Length 73.6 ft | Breath 17.8 ft | Depths 5.7 ft |
| Dimensions (1937) | Length 73.6 ft | Breath 17.8 ft | Depths 5.7 ft |
| Tonnage (1876) Gross 51.19 tons Net 41tons B.D not recorded | |||
| Tonnage (1902) Gross 53.8 tons Net 40.2 tons B.D not recorded | |||
Tonnage (1937) Gross 53.8 tons Net 40.2 tons B.D not recorded |
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| Engines None | |||
| Beached date | C. Autumn 1965 | ||
| Beached by | Resolute Capt Oliver Powell, Jimmy Common, Bob Green, Dick Woodward | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1 decked: 1 mast: flat rig: sq stern: carvel BS2.6 - Story of mishap in Severn Glos 2/21.04.76 1,1,F,sq,cvl - - wd Glos 4/20.03.021,1,F,sq,cvl - - wd 4.10.34 (see also THOR) Broke adrift near Northwick and collided with Aust Pier. Was badly damaged but re-floated and taken to Sharpness, arriving on 6th Originally double ended see Hiford Drougth (94 12) |
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| First Owners | 21.4.76 Samuel Hipwood Gloster & William Halling, Master no certificate | ||
| Changes | 2.4.78 (16) William Hallings jnr Twyning 7.12.87 Samuel Hipwood Gloster, (16) Hy. Newman, Tewkesbury & William Halling jnr, (16) Rufus Halling Tewkesbury 31.3.94 (32)William Silvey Saul, Samuel Hipwood Gloster, William Halling jnr, 26.4.94 (32) Lucy Silvey wife of William, Saul 26.12.99 (32)Francis Hipwood Gloucester & (32) Lucy Silvey wife of William, Saul. 21.2.00 (16) John William Hipwood 20.3.02 (48) Francis Hipwood & (16) John William Hipwood, Gloucester. 17.1.11 (64) Francis Hipwood 11.3.37 (64) Rosa Cave-Ayland, Gloucester 29.4.37 Alt to dumb barge & R/A |
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| Fate | Broken up. - RC.14 Oct 1952 MNL supp Put on river bank at Purton as a breakwater, 1952 – GEF observation |
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