ianc1200
Well-known member
Hi
There was a thread on here, I'm sure, about a wooden cruiser which sank on her mooring outside a bungalow in the Wargrave area about 1.5 - 2 miles above Shiplake lock. I've tried and tried, but cannot find that thread (I'm sure I contributed to it) - I'm useless at the search engine. I'm fairly certain it was Quest. A former owner has written to the Thames Vintage Boat Club asking for information.
At the Festival our Rear Commodore Jane was approached by the Bidgood family who had owned a boat called QUEST since before the Dunkirk Evacuation and she is one of the Little Ships.
They are now trying to trace her whereabouts.
The TVBC has very accurate information about her on our database, although she was never a member boat as such:
She was built by the Navy in 1916.
32 foot, clinker hull (typical Navy pinnace). She was restored in 1936 and used as a family cabin cruiser before requisition by the Admiralty.
She appeared at the Trad for several years and won the Peter Freebody Trophy in 2000.
She was moored by Maidenhead bridge for some years then was sold out of the family and went to Caversham marina. She could still be in that area?
There was a thread on here, I'm sure, about a wooden cruiser which sank on her mooring outside a bungalow in the Wargrave area about 1.5 - 2 miles above Shiplake lock. I've tried and tried, but cannot find that thread (I'm sure I contributed to it) - I'm useless at the search engine. I'm fairly certain it was Quest. A former owner has written to the Thames Vintage Boat Club asking for information.
At the Festival our Rear Commodore Jane was approached by the Bidgood family who had owned a boat called QUEST since before the Dunkirk Evacuation and she is one of the Little Ships.
They are now trying to trace her whereabouts.
The TVBC has very accurate information about her on our database, although she was never a member boat as such:
She was built by the Navy in 1916.
32 foot, clinker hull (typical Navy pinnace). She was restored in 1936 and used as a family cabin cruiser before requisition by the Admiralty.
She appeared at the Trad for several years and won the Peter Freebody Trophy in 2000.
She was moored by Maidenhead bridge for some years then was sold out of the family and went to Caversham marina. She could still be in that area?