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LADY CABLE
Type/Class Motor > Passenger Vessel
Designer: F. C. Morgan Giles
Builder: Morgan Giles Ltd
Year: 1924
Ship statusRegistered
Yard Number59
Original Sail NumberN/A
Home PortTorquay
Known History
LADY CABLE built for Alf Pittaway to be used as a passenger carrying pleasure craft in Torquay. She was launched by Lady Cable of Lindridge, Bishopsteignton and is a well known Dunkirk Little Ship.
By 1936 Lady Cable had been sold to C. & N. Mott of Torquay, and was the only boat to go from there to Dunkirk. Skippered by Frank Gooding during the evacuation she is said to have taken 630 men from the beaches out to the larger transport ships in seven trips, and she finally returned full of troops to Dover being the last Little Ship to leave Dunkirk.
Afterwards, LADY CABLE continued to be a passenger-carrying pleasure craft during the holiday season, sometimes taking her passengers on fishing expeditions. Mrs. Irene Bolus, who bought the boat in 1987, with John Bolus as skipper, has used her to earn her living on mackerel fishing trips and cruises around the bay.
The Turning Point Hertitage Trust were gifted the vessel to The lady Cable Trust but the restoration did not take place
She is currently in a back garden in Paignton.
ConstructionWooden
LOA40 ft
Beam9 ft
Draft 3.5 ft
DisplacementNot known
OwnerTurning Point Trust
Previous Ownership
1924 - Built for Alf Pittaway
1936 - Sold to C&N Mott of Totquay
Mid 1950's - Late 1970's - Gordon Medway
1987 - Mrs Irene Bolus
2003 - Bought by Peter Foreman of Turning Point Trust after sinking in Torquay Harbour
2009 - Turning Point Trust handed over the boat to the Lady Cable Trust after failing to get national Lottery funding to restore it.
2015 - Restoration stalls after Turning Point Trust says Lady Cable Trust did not have the authority to remove the boat.
2017 - Turning point brings the Lady Cable to a back garden in Paignton. To the best of our knowledge she still remains there ,slipping further into disrepair.
