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Thames Sailing Barges owned and sailed
 by the Vandervord's of Southend

ALMA

Spritsail - 41 Tons
Port - London - Registration Entry
Official No. 11950
Built in Lambeth in 1855
Owners :
1865-1904 J & G Vandervord & J Underwood
Joe Wiggins, Thundersley C'1911

ANN

Spritsail - 29 Tons
Port - Faversham - Registration Entry - 1/1824
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 11/1847
Official No: 42572
Built at Limehouse in 1816
Dimensions (ft) 59.2 x 14.5 x 4.4
Signal Letters: TKJC
Owners:
1824 At Faversham
1838 William Phipps, Faversham
1847 James Vandervord, Southend
1853 Jas & Geo Murrell, Hockley
1865-75 Robt. Surridge, Limehouse

ASHLEY

Spritsail - 54 Tons
Port - London- Registration Entry -1804
Port - Faversham - Registration Entry - 1808
Port - Rochester - Registration Entry - 21/1816
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 6/1817
Port - London - Registration Entry - 1842
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 1843
Official No:
Built at Reading in 1804
Dimensions (ft) 59.6 x 17.5 x 5.7
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1804 John Drew, Surrey
1817 Thomas Bannister, South Church
1825 James Hills. Leigh
1831 Henry Lambert & James Porter, Writtle
1833 Mark Martin, Leigh
1843 James Wilson Vandervord, Southend

ASSISTANCE

Boomsail - 20 Tons
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 17/1827
Official No: 11082
Built - Prize ?1827
Dimensions (ft) 41 x 12 x 4.4
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1846 Elizabeth Meeson, Rochford
1865 Thos. Laslett, N. Shoebury
1874 George Vandervord, Southend
1883 George Woods, Southend
Condemned January 1810 in the High Court of the Admiralty

BETSEY

Barge - 54 Tons
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 10/1787
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - . 2/1826
Port - London - Registration Entry - 1827
Official No:
Built at London in 1770
Dimensions (ft) 54 x 16.4 x 4.1 Enlarged to 55.7 x 17.1 x 4.6
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1787 Capt Sam Cockerton, Prittlewell
1825 Abraham Vandervord, Southend
1826 James Vandervord, Southend
1827 James Heygate, Southend
1886 Broken Up

CERES

Barge - 66 Tons (Reduced to 42 Tons)
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 10/1807
Port - Rochester - Registration Entry - 12/1818
Port - London - 1843 and 1849
Port - Harwich - 1883
Official No: 17820
Built at Colchester in 1807 by W. Stuttle
Dimensions (ft) 60.6 x 18 x 5.9 reduced to 60 x 15.9 x 5.5
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1807 [1] Abraham Vandervord, Southend
1807 (skippered by William Vandervord)
1811 D. Jones
1818 Owned at Rochester
1825 Jerimiah Brown, Sheerness
1883 Luke Richmond, Harwich

CERES ?(2)

Barge - 47 Tons
Port - London - Registration Entry - 143/1809
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 19/1814
Port - London - Registration Entry - 1823
Official No:
Built at Battersea in 1795
Dimensions (ft)
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1814 Abraham Vandervord, Southend
1818 Capt. Thomas Snow, Maldon

DEERHOUND

Spritsail - 48 Tons
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry 9/1864
Official No: 50451
Built at Sittingbourne in 1864 by S. Taylor
Dimensions (ft) 73.5 x 18.2 x 4.8
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1864 [1] George & Emmanuel Vandervord, Southend
1895 William Bowman, Southen
1897 Alfred Vandervord, Southend - "sold at Auction by Messrs. J.C. Hammond & Co., 77 Mark Lane London in connection with the Estate of Messrs. G & E Vandervord on 17th Inst.(?1904) for £351.5.0."
1904-30 London Rochester Trading Co.
Wrecked on Grain Spit

DISPATCH

Square Stern Barge - 49 Tons
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 33/1786
Port - Maldon - Re-Registrated Entry - 29/1800 as Spritsail
Port - London - Transferred Registration Entry - 85/1804
Official No:
Built at London in 1776
Dimensions (ft) 54.6 x 16.2 x 4.6
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1786 William Murrells, Mariner and Edmund Taylor, Miller of Rowoth
1800 Abraham Vandervord of Southend, Hoyman
Masters:
1776 - William Murrells
1791 - John Murrells
1800 - William Turnidge
1801 - James Rowley via Turnidge
Notes:
Based at Battlesbridge in 1786, Leigh in 1800

EFFORT

Square Sterned Barge - ? Tons
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 7/1887
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 19/1805
Port - London - Re-Registered Entry - 1810
Official No:
Built at Vauxhall in 1786
Dimensions (ft) 567 x 20 x 6.4
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1787 Philip Going, South Shoebury
17? William then Joseph Going, South Shoebury
1802 Capt Matthew Fisher, Shoebury & Ben Bannister, Gt. Wakering
1805 Abraham Vandervord & Capt John Hutchins, Southend

ELIZABETH

Spritsail - 50 Tons
Port -Wisbech - Registration Entry - 4/1840
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry 5/1853
Official No: 17403
Built at York in 1840
Dimensions (ft) 59 x 13.7 x 6
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1853 George Vandervord (Hoyman) Southend & Ed. Maddams & Thomas Laslett (Coal Merchant) Shoebury
Notes:
Registration Cancelled. Vellel lost as per notice of owner dated 3rd November 1856 (Registration Entry)

EMILY

Spritsail - 32 Tons
Port - London - Registration Entry - 49/1844
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 3/1875
Official No: 794
Built at Northfleet in 1844 by J. Wright
Dimensions (ft) 66.8 x 12 x 4.4
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1849 George Vandervord, Southend
1872 George Vandervord, Southend
1897 Alfred Vandervord, Southend - "sold by Messrs J. C. Hammond & Co, 77 Mark Lane, London in connection with estate of Messrs G & E Vandervord on 17th inst for £73.10.0"
1904 Berk & Co. London
Notes:
1910 Broken Up

ESSEX FARMER

Spritsail - 50 Tons
Port - London - Registration Entry - 4/1856
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 1897
Official No: 11087
Built at Long Ditton in 1856 by Phillips
Dimensions (ft) 77.6 x 17.3 x 5.5
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1856 [1] George Vandervord, Southend
1882 George Vandervord, Southend
1895 Henry Thompson, Leigh on Sea
1904-11 William Baker, Southend
Notes:
1886 - took 2nd place in the Southend Regatta
1896 sank in gale, raised
Register closed 1921
"One of the most interesting Vandervord craft, having an overhung spoon-head, transitional between swim-head and te fully developed round bow. she sank off the pier in a gale in 1896, but washed up on the beach undamaged" Down Tops'l p.150

FACTOR

Spritsail - 84 Tons
Port - Rochester - Registration Entry - 8/1833
Port - London - Registration Entry - 38/1836
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 4/1853
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 3/1858
Official No: 26386
Built at Bankside in 1833 by D. White
Dimensions (ft) 63 x 17.4 x 5.2 - re-registered in 1836 as 61 x 14.5 x 5.7, then 72.5 x 18.1 x 5.7 in Maldon in 1858
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1833 [1] David Triton, Sheerness#
1853 R.J. Meeson & W. J. Meeson, Battlesbridge
1872 W. J. Meason, Rochford
1876 E. Brazier, Southend
1888 John Cowley at auction for £225, resold
1888 George Vandervord, Southend
1897 George F Vandervord, Southend (Managing Owner)
Notes:
# Cancelled at London 15 Aug 1836 and Registration transferred
Foundered west Swin 1 Jan 1903 (Reg. Entry)
NB 1904 MNL gives 1 Mar 1903 as date of loss
1888 - Southend Regatta (yet another of Vandervord's Maldon antiques) Down Tops'l P 169

FARMER'S INCREASE

Square Stern Barge - 87 Tons
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 78/1786
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 17/1795 - Sloop rigged barge- 92 Tons
Port - Ipswich - Registration Entry- 19 Oct 1798
Official No:
Built at Vauxhall, Surrey in 1784
Dimensions (ft) 67.11 x 20 x 6
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1786 Daniel Heard of Southend in Prittlewell, mariner
1795 Abraham Vandervord (Hoyman) of Prittlewell
Masters:
1784 Daniel Heard
1787 Abram Vandervord via Heard
1790 John Sears via Vandervord
1791 John Hutchin via Sears
1795 John Hutchin
Notes:
Based at Southend 1786, at Leigh 1795
1794 Hired by Admiralty as Hired Armed Vessel
Reg. De-novo Ipswich 1798

FOUR SISTERS

Pink Stern Sloop - 60 Tons
Port - Transferred from Colchester - 32/1796
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 1801
Port - London - Registration Entry - 183/1803
Official No:
Built at St Osyth in 1763
Dimensions (ft)
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1801 Abraham Vandervord, Southend Master mariner and Christopher Parson of North Shoebury, Gent
Masters:
John Page
1802 (Newcastle) James Cook
Notes:
Based at Leigh

GANNET

Spritsail - 50 Tons
Port - London - Registration Entry
Official No: 95453
Built at Limehouse in 1888 by H. Shrubsall
Re-built at Murson in 1927 by Smeed
Dimensions (ft) 81 x 18.3 x 6
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1888 [1] Alfred Vandervord, Southend - "sold by Messrs J. C. Hammond & Co, 77 Mark Lane, London from Estate of G & E Vandervord on 17th Inst for £735.00"
1903 Edith Peters, Southend
1919-1923 S. J. Peters, Southend
1926 Smeed Dean, Murston (Rebuilt)
1933 Wakeley Bros. Rainham, Kent £125.00
Notes:
Lost. Floundered 9 Mar 1939 near West Buxey. Maidstone to River Crouch with rag and bonestone.

GEORGE CANNING

Spritsail - 69 Tons
Port - London - Registration Entry - 226/1826
Port - London - Registration Entry - 1836
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 8/1831
Official No:
Built at Woolwich in 1825
Dimensions (ft) 64.6 x 17.7 x 4.10
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1831 James Bull, Lighterman, Woolwich
1831 Edwin Sumner, Gent, Southend
1836 Vandervoord, Southend
1890 William Bowman, Shoeburyness

GEORGE & ALFRED

Spritsail - 45 Tons
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry -
Official No: 42537
Built at Sittingbourne in 1862 by Taylor
Dimensions (ft) 75 x 19 x 6.5
Signal Letters: TKJD
Owners:
1862 George Vandervord, Southend
1881 George Vandervord, Southend
1897 Alfred Vandervord, Southend- "sold by Messrs J. C. Hammond & Co, 77 Mark Lane, London from Estate of G & E Vandervord on 17th Inst for £325.00"
1903 Dan Osborne, Faversham
19 ? Sheppey Glue Co.
Notes:
1885 - "there was only one class at the Southend Regatta and all entries were locally owned. There was a good start, though George & Alfred was very slow getting her anchor." Down Tops'l p. 169 Registration Closed C'1912

IONA

Spritsail - 49 Tons
Port - London - Registration Entry
Official No: 67113
Built at Frindsbury in 1875 by Curel
Dimensions (ft)
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1875 [1] John Scott, Farmer, Wouldham
1895 Emanuel Vandervord, Southend - "sold by Messrs J. C. Hammond & Co, 77 Mark Lane, London from Estate of G & E Vandervord on 17th Inst for £412.00"
1904 London Rochester Barge Co.
Notes:
One of the first barges to be fited with a wheel (Chatham News)

JANE

Spritsail - 57 Tons
Port - London - Registration Entry
Official No: 102828
Built at Sittingbourne in 1893 by White
Dimensions (ft)
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1903 - "sold by Messrs J. C. Hammond & Co, 77 Mark Lane, London from Estate of G & E Vandervord on 17th Inst for £892.10.00"
1904-1911[1] Alfred Vandervord, Southend
Samuel West, Gravesend
1923-1947 Everard, Greenhithe
Notes:
1904 came 2nd in the last Southend race regatta
Lost. Crushed by USS Titan in royal Albert Dock 1947 and Broken Up

JOHN EVELYN

Spritsail - 72 Tons
Port - London - Registration Entry
Official No: 91875
Built at Deptford in 1885 by Braby
Dimensions (ft)
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1885 [1] Vandervord, Southend
1895 Mrs. Harrison, Brockley
1901 William Bowman, Southend
1907 London Rochester Trading Co.
Notes:
Damged enemy action Millwall Dock 1915
Became House Barge
1960 Broken Up. Temple Marsh, Strood

LORD PALMERSTON

Spritsail - 42 Tons
Port - London - Registration Entry
Official No: 12916
Built at Lamberth in 1857
Dimensions (ft)
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1865-73 Underwood, Southend
1888 George & Alfred Vandervord, Southend - bought at auction £295
??? New Explosives Co.
1903 R & W Paul, Ipswich for £60.00 - repaired at Dock End Yard
Notes:
Lost. Floundered 9 Mar 1939 near West Buxey. Maidstone to River Crouch with rag and bonestone.

MARY & ELIZABETH

Barge - 60 Tons
Port -
Official No:
Built at
Dimensions (ft)
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1740's Geroge Richardson
1743 Abraham Vandervord, Southend -
Notes:
Abraham - born in 1689 was mentioned in Landing Charges in 1727

MINERVA

Spritsail - 82 Tons
Port - Maldon- Registration Entry
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - rebuilt in 1810 - 42 tons
Official No: 26501
Built pre 1793
Re-built at Aylesford in 1810 by Thomas Webb for Abraham Vandervord
Dimensions (ft) 65.11 x 19.2 x 5.10
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1811 Abraham Vandervord, Southend
1817 Thos Bullen & Abraham Markham, Southend - "sold by A.Vandervord's executors to Bullen & Markham"
1826 James Vandervord, Southend
1851 James Wilson Vandervord, Southend
1865 Charles Markham, Salcott
1865 Isaac Richmond, Burnham
1872 Stephen Taylor, Sittingbourne
Notes:
1885 Registration Cancelled (Reg.Entry)

PITSEA

Barge- 40 Tons
Port -
Official No:
Built at
Dimensions (ft)
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1767 John Cousins, Southend
Masters:
1777 Abraham Vandervord (aged 18 years of age) click here to see his Master's Paper
Notes:
John Cousins was Abraham's stepfather from the age of 8 years

RACHEL & JULIA

Spritsail - 53 Tons
Port - London - Registration Entry - 44/1873
Official No: 68392
Built at Miltonin 1873 by R. Shrubsall
Dimensions (ft) 75 x 18.8 x 5.3
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1873 [1] Howard, Great Wakering
1895 Vandervord, Southend - (as 41ft)
1904-1918 Mrs. Alice Rawlingson, London
Notes:
1918 Registration Closed

RATHBALE

Spritsail - 58 Tons
Port - London - Registration Entry
Official No: 106520
Built at Erith in 1896
Dimensions (ft)
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1896 [1] Vandervord, Southend - "sold by Messrs J. C. Hammond & Co, 77 Mark Lane, London from Estate of G & E Vandervord on 17th Inst for £1,155.00"
1904 Beckwith, Colchester
1911-1923 Goldsmith, Grays
Notes:
An Iron Barge

ROVER

Spritsail - 37 Tons
Port - London - Registration Entry
Official No: 54698
Built at Millwall in 1865 by Hartnoll
Re-built at Murson in 1927 by Smeed
Dimensions (ft)
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1865 [1] Hartnoll & Surridge, Millwall
1885 Vandervord, Southend
1895-1904 William Stafford, Shoeburyness
1911 William Theobald, Leigh
Notes:
Lost anchor & chain in December 1914 gale. Crew taken off and Barge washed ashore at Herne Bay
1918 Vessel disposed of

ROYAL OAK

Cutter (Boomsail rigged) sloop raid barge - 91 Tons rebuilt to 59 tons
Port - London - Registration Entry - 17/1798
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 18/1798
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 95/1825
Port - London - Registration Entry - 1826
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 10/1847
Official No: 905
Built at Limehouse in 1798
Re-built in 1825 to flat bottom square stern
Dimensions (ft) 71 x 20 x 5.11 rebuilt to 70.2 x 19.10 x 6.5 to 59 tons
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1798 [1] Abraham Vandervord, Southend in Prittlewell, Hoyman
1817- "transferred by Jas Dixon (executor of A.Vandervord's will) whole vessal to William Heard Vandervord, George Vandervord and James Wilson Vandervord, all of Southend, Hoymen
1822 W.H Vandervord, Geo J Vandervord and J.W.Vandervord transfer all their right, share or interest to Thomas Bullen of Southend
1843 8 June - in Will of George John Vandervord "hereby direct my son George Vandervord shall have director and management of the Barge called the Royal Oak
1846 George Vandervord, Southend
1881 George Vandervord (MNL)
1893 - "Vandervord's still working one of the oldest barges" Down Tops'L
Masters:
1798 John Hutchin
1811 Jas Rowley via Abm Markwell
Notes:
Based at Leigh
1798 - Re-registered from London
1893
1894 dismasted (1895 MNL)
' The oldest barge in the 1893 Mercantile Navy List, the Maldon Royal Oak, built at Limehouse in 1798 ans still with the Varndervords of Southend almost a century later, was specifically described as "booms'l rigged" (Down Tops'l p.34)'

SUSANNAH

Flat Bottomed Sailing Barge- 50 Tons
Port - Faversham - Registration Entry - 3/1797
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 4/1803
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 7/1808 - Flat bott. Square Stern
Official No: 26601
Built at Lambeth (Surrey) in 1789
Re-built in 1865 to 38 tons
Dimensions (ft) 56 x 16.2 x 4.6
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1789 [1] Abraham Vandervord, Southend, mariner
1803 Abraham Vandervord, Southend
1808 Wm Hatch & Geo.Riley, both of Bradwell, mariners
1825 John Smith of Burham, builder & exer. of said George Riley, late Barge Owner, sold 32/64 share to William Dudley of Bakewell, mariner
Masters:
1789 James Rowley
1808 Isaac Whitney
1812 Wm Smith
1816 James Parker
1818 Wm Smith
1819 James Parker
Notes:
Based at Leigh 1803, Maldon 1808

WATERLOO

Boomsail - 73 Tons
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 15/1816
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 96/1825
Port - London - Registration Entry - 1837
Port - Maldon - Registration Entry - 3/1853
Official No: 24595
Built at Millwall in 1816 by R. Barnett
Re-built at Murson in 1927 by Smeed
Dimensions (ft) 64.5 x 18.9 x 5.5 and 63.4 x 18.7 x 6 in 1825
Signal Letters:
Owners:
1816 [1] Abraham Vandervord, Southend
1817 Thomas Bullen, Southend (William Vandervord - Master)
1827 William Vandervord, Southend
1852 William Vandervord, Southend
1853 James Wilson Vandervord, Southend
1865 Kemp, Southminster
Notes:
1817 - Abraham Vandervord died, left the Waterloo in his will to his son William, sold by executors to Thomas Bullen
1837 Re-registered London
1853 Re-registered Maldon, shown as Southend Hoy Barge

WEST KENT

Spritsail - 45 Tons
Port - London - Registration Entry
Official No: 29338
Built at Deptford in 1865
Dimensions (ft)
Signal Letters: QFLT
Owners:
1865 Smith, Deptfond
1861 George Vandervord, Southend
1894 Alfred Vandervord, Southend
1904 William Baker, Southend
1911 William Theobald, Leigh
1926 Joshua Brand, Southend
Notes:
1881 In January this Barge smashed through Southend Pier. "The West Kent which had been unloading timber in the harbour, was swept bodily under the pier, a large poart of which was washed away, marooning the look-out till he was later relieved by boat. The West Kent which must have been staunchly built to get the best of that encounter was got out and repaired and was still trading till 1925" (Down Tops'l) P 155

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