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NOMAD
Type/Class Motor > Passenger Vessel
Designer: Frank Morgan-Giles
Builder: Morgan Giles
Year: 1934
Ship statusRegistered
Yard Number305
Original Sail NumberN/A
Home PortOnknown
Known History
Nomad, built in 1934 as a pleasure boat in Torquay, was requisitioned as a Liberty Boat during WWII and transported troops from warships moored in Scapa Flow, Scotland. She was sunk by a German Messerschmitt, but they brought her up, repaired her and she carried on, eventually returning to work as the Torquay-Babbacombe ferry. Log books show she had carried well over a million passengers before Mark Young bought her in 2006.
No further history is none at this time but she was later sold
ConstructionWood Carvel Construction
LOA40ft
LWL40ft
Beam10ft 4in
Draft 3ft
Displacement16 tons
OwnerPrresent owner unknown
Previous Ownership
Built for S H Cocks - Torquay
Requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW2
Later before and atter WW2 believed to be owned by Mrs Hales, also owner of White Heather.
Purchased by Mark Young in 2006 and used as a River Taxi on the River Medina on the Isle of Wight.
Later ownership unknown
