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Built in 1947 by Cook Walton & Gemmel of Beverley, YORKSHIRE BELLE is a passenger vessel used for pleasure trips and based at Bridlington. She has a riveted and welded steel hull and two Gardner diesel engines 8L3 models built in 1951. She is the last remaining Bridlington pleasure boat of the six that once operated from the 1920s to 1950s. Mr Jack Pockley was skipper and part-owner from 1947 until he retired in 1973.
Key dates
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1947
Built by Cook, Gemmel & Welton Ltd, Beverley
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1947
Began pleasure trips out of Bridlington
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1947-1973
Mr Jack Pockley was skipper and part-owner from 1947 until he retired in 1973.
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1951
The two six-cylinder Crossley Bros. Engines were replaced at Beverley by twin eight-cylinder Gardner Engines. Previously unavailable due to high demand after the war, the Gardner engines gave more speed and they are still in situ today.
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1969
Ownership changed to John Cross Pockley (Jack) and Thomas Marshall Needham.
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1982
Purchased by Roy Simpson and Peter Richardson
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1982
Association with the RSPB began when the Scarborough and District local group organised a bird watching cruise as part of their “Springtime is Birdtime” campaign.
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1987
Saw the most radical change to the structure of the Yorkshire Belle when the canvas awning to her stern was replaced with a steel roof.
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late 1990s
Served as tender to cruise ship VISTAMA at Bridlington
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2016
One of the current owners retired from the partnership and the current owner's son became his business partner
Sources
Hamer, Geoffrey, Trip Out 1995/6 - A Guide to the Passenger Boat Services of the British Isles, G P Hamer, 1995
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