Rowing Boats
Camelia
Camelia was built in the 1890s. She was the yard tender for Crossfields Boatbuilders
Boat statistics
- Built
- 1890
- Length Over All
- 14 ft (4.27 m)
- Beam
- 4.5 ft (1.37 m)
Introduction
Camelia was built in the 1890s. She was donated to Lancaster Maritime Museum when the boatyard finally closed down in 1985.
History by Year
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1890s
Built
-
1960s or 70s
Replica built
A replica was built by John Duerden
Full History
History
Camelia was a rowing boat used by Crossfields as a tender to get out to boats moored on the estuary and for fishing. She was donated to Lancaster Maritime Museum around 1985 by Stephen Ogden the last person to operate the Beach Walk boatyard as a working boatyard.
Her design is probably fairly typical of rowing boats that would have been used in estuaries in the North West in 1890s.. She is clinker built with overlapping hull planks. She has an unusually shaped short risers supporting the thwarts (seats in middle of the boat).
John Duerden who ran the boatyard from 1966 to 1984 had a replica of Camelia built. The replica is the last wooden boat to be made in the boatshed.
Camelia is recorded as being an excellent boat to row. There are tales of her being rowed to Grange for a night out and even to Morecambe