Blackpool and Fleetwood Jewel Class
Peggy (1911)
Lloyds Register lists a yacht called Peggy in the 1930 and 1931 Register. She was built in 1911 in Arnside. Peggy has the same dimensions as the Jewel Class. Her home port was Fleetwood.
She was almost certainly a Jewel Class boat that was renamed at some point, either Iolite, Amethyst or Pearl / Ruby.
Boat statistics
- Built
- 1911
- Length Over All
- 23 ft (7.01 m)
- Waterline
- 19.5 ft (5.94 m)
- Beam
- 6.8 ft (2.07 m)
- Draft
- 4 ft (1.22 m)
- Weight
- 3
- Construction
- Pitch pine on oak frames
- Rig
- Gaff Sloop (Single foresail)
Introduction
Peggy was listed in Lloyds Register as owned by Arnold Brooks of Cheetham Hill in Manchester. There are newspaper reports of Arnold Brook taking part in races in Peggy from 1928 to 1930. In 1931 Arnold brought Eleanor, a 26 foot yacht built by Crossfields in 1915.
Her next owner was A.Drummond who in previous seasons had raced against Arnold Brooks and Peggy in Dolphin.
Full History
Racing at Fleetwood 1928 - 1931
Peggy was raced by Arnold Brooks in Blackpool and Fleetwood Yacht Club events on a regular basis. Peggy came third in the Fleetwood – Roa Island Race in 1929 and second in 1930, beating bigger yachts.. She was third in races at Wardley’s Regatta and Fleetwood Regatta in 1928. She came first in a handicap race at Fleetwood in 1929.
In July 1931 she came third in the Captain’s Cup at Fleetwood skippered by A.Drummond after Arnold Brook had sold her to buy Eleanor.
There are no records of her after 1931