ETHEL ALICE CK476
Built
Brightlingsea
Builder
Aldous
Date
1897
Construction
Wood
Dimensions
Breadth: Beam
9.61 feet (2.93m)
Depth
4.59 feet (1.40m)
Length: Overall
40.00 feet (12.20m)
Description
Class III oyster smack
National Ships Registered No.
Built in 1897 by Aldous of Brightlingsea, ETHEL ALICE is a fishing smack with a carvel built hull of iroko planking on oak frames and is a gaff rigged cutter with one timber mast. She has no engine. After a working life dredging for oysters off the Essex coast, she now races in local smack matches. There are few craft left in her class.