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Annual Repport

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Foreword

During the year ending March 2008 several of the ’s most significant historic vessels faced extraordinary challenges. There were serious fires on board the and the harbour defence motor launch Medusa . Elsewhere, the other clipper ship , the HMS Bronington and the former Fairmile launch Golden were deemed to have no sustainable future by their owners, who brought forward proposals for these ships to be broken up.

Fortified by additional assistance from the Heritage Lottery Fund the Cutty Sark is coping with the aftermath of the fire, and Medusa’s recovery is also proceeding well. National Historic Ships has been actively involved in attempts to find sustainable futures for other ships in difficulties. We played a pivotal role in the negotiations over the HMS Bronington, dispensed more than £76,000 from our Strategic Development Fund, and ensuring that, whatever her fate, the maximum amount of material from we have also launched the first in a series of publications, providing vessel her structure will be saved for display or incorporation in other vessels. owners with advice and guidance on best practice in ship recording. We also continue to support and advise on attempts to build sustainable futures for the City of Adelaide , the Unicorn and the topsail We have continued our successful programme of forum meetings around Kathleen & May . Although no satisfactory solution could be the coast, open to the owners, operators and others interested in historic found for the problems facing Golden Galleon , National Historic Ships vessels. These meetings provide us with the opportunity to explain our ensured she was recorded properly before she was broken up. mission, but equally importantly they help us to understand the issues confronting those who manage historic vessels. Looking ahead, there are In this second year of our operation, we have established ourselves as an still many challenges to be faced, but the year has strengthened our authority to which funding bodies, national and local, public and private, confidence, our reputation and our resolution to ensure that there is a turn for advice on historic ship matters. But we also exist to help the strong, secure future for historic vessels as a central part of our maritime individuals and trusts that look after historic vessels. This year, we heritage.

Robert Prescott, Martyn Heighton, Chairman Director and Secretary to the Advisory Committee

1 Introduction We are pleased to present the second annual report of the Advisory

Committee on National Historic Ships, a non-departmental public body

reporting to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, with the

specific remit to advise the Secretary of State and other public funding

bodies on ship preservation and funding priorities. The report sets out

the principal activities of the Committee and its staff, and how its

resources were deployed, during the financial year 2007-08. Our

forward plan is included as an insert within the back cover.

This publication, along with the advice documents mentioned in

the text, will also be available as a download from our website,

www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk.

Front cover illustration: ss Great Britain , Mandy Reynolds © Trustees of the ss Great Britain Trust

2 Contents Strategic Development Fund 4

Major consultations 8

Research and publications 14

Meetings, forums and visits 15

Foundations for the future 18

The Registers 22

Income and expenditure accounts 24

Deploying our resources 27

Appendices:

A The remit, targets and priorities of National Historic Ships 28

B Members of the Comittee and staff 30

Volunteers and consultants 32

C The 34

HMS Cavalier 3 Strategic Development Fund

The Strategic Development Fund was launched in 2006 to assist owners, were all considered, but to meet the high number of sustainability

trusts and societies responsible for craft on the National Register of applications, money was transferred from the other two funds.

Historic Vessels to attend conferences, training courses, develop Experience has shown that relatively small grants can make a real

business plans, improve interpretation, undertake essential repairs and difference. However there is still a great deal to do and we need to find

purchase vital equipment. The scheme has proved immensely popular ways of increasing monies available for this vital aspect of our work. The

and during the financial year 2007/2008 a total of £76,013 was full list of awards to date is set out in the table on pages 5 and 6.

dispensed in grants to vessel owners, trusts and societies. Applications

for conference bursaries, training bursaries and sustainability awards (CC= Core Collection, DV = Designated Vessel List, Reg = Registered)

4 Vessel Status Grant Purpose Awarded £

New descriptive literature and 199 DV Sustainability 1,137 portable display panels

Aldgate and Angel Reg/Reg Sustainability Remedial and protective work 3,000

Blue Leader: Reg Sustainability Re-planking bow section of the at 937 RAF 2561 the

Bramble Reg Sustainability New gunwales and running gear 3,000

Bruce’s DV Sustainability Lifting out of the water 750

Cactus Reg Sustainability New interpretation signs 400

Calshot CC Sustainability Survey costs 1,000

Coronia DV Sustainability Survey costs 3,000

Corrie CC Sustainability Bow strengthening and repair 2,750

Española Reg Sustainability Spars 3,000

Cornish Maiden Reg Sustainability Crane hire 2,000

Humber and Sustainability Production of educational material 975 Preservation Society

James Stevens DV Sustainability Signage 2,000 No.14

Kent DV Sustainability Hull maintenance 3,000

Keewaydin Reg Sustainability New sails 3,000

Lady Francesca Reg Sustainability Hull caulking 2,000

Lively Hope CC Sustainability Conservation plan 3,000

Mary Gordon Reg Sustainability Education planning for HLF bid 1,000

5 Vessel Status Grant Purpose Awarded £

Preliminary stability and Medway Queen DV Sustainability 1,316 structural assessment

Morna Reg Sustainability Deck repairs 2,000

SS Nomadic CC Sustainability Survey costs 2,000

North Carr DV Sustainability Signage 2,300

Pioneer Reg Sustainability Consultant to draw up business plan 2,250

Regal Lady DV Sustainability Dry docking 3,000

Resolute Lady Reg Sustainability Survey costs 1,000

Scottish Fisheries Training Training course for volunteers 1,000 Museum Boat Club

Snowdon Star Reg Training Boatbuilding course 3,000

Spider T DV Sustainability New sails 3,000

HMS Stalker Reg Sustainability Survey 3,000

Swallow Reg Sustainability Engine repairs 600

VIC 32 DV Sustainability Volunteer working group 1,000

Vigilance DV Sustainability New sails 3,000

Vigilant CC Sustainability Legal advice 3,000

MFV Voyageur Reg Sustainability Timber for the hull and deck 3,000

Wheelhouse Reg Sustainability General repairs and new saloon 2,600

Wherry Sustainability repair 3,000 Charter Charitable Trust

6 Grants financial summary 2007-08 2006-07 ££ INCOME DCMS 80,000 80,000 Surplus 2006/07 carried forward 50,593 0 Additional funds 700 0 Total Income 131,293 80,000

EXPENDITURE Vessel grants Conferences 0 (1,683) Training (4,000) (1,449) Sustainability (72,013) (26,275) Total vessel grants (76,013) (29,407) Projects Unicorn & City of Adelaide (5,500) Infrastructure audit (12,552) Conservation Book (26,373) Total projects (44,425)

Total expenditure (120,438) (29,407)

Funds to carry forward 10,855 50,593

Project Sustainability Carry Forward

34% 55% 3% 0% 8% 2007-08

2006-07 0% 33% 2% 2% 63%

Training Conferences

7 Major consultations

HMS The Museum applied to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a Alliance grant for part of a project to restore this Core Collection ship. National Historic Ships advised HLF that the

"We were deligthed that you proposals presented were not the best possible solution for the vessel. The Museum subsequently agreed to withdraw its application with the intention to resubmit a stronger bid. National Historic Ships is assisting the

were able to support our project. Museum in developing a substantially better proposal.

The new sails have just been HMS National Historic Ships has, since its inception in 2006, sought a permanent home Bronington for this Ton Class minesweeper but without success. Therefore, to achieve a positive , National Historic

installed, and they look Ships initiated and led a consortium (which included the Royal Naval Museum, the , Chatham Historic Dockyard and the Mersey Docks and Harbour Commission, with the support of the Museum,

magnificent" Libraries and Archives Council) to map out a deconstruction plan for the vessel. As a result, members of the consortium acquired parts, fixtures and fittings for their public collections and thus some of Bronington will be Vigilance of preserved in perpetuity. Preservation Co. Ltd

This West Country is now on the open market, although no firm offers have Kathleen & May been received. The Director has met with the Minister of State for Culture, Media and Sport to discuss how a strong trust or community interest company could be established to campaign and eventually take over the vessel, if the funding can be raised.

National Historic Ships supported the application to HLF for conservation of this . Pilgrim

8 Top left: HMS Alliance Submarine Top right: HMS Bronington Minesweeper

Bottom left: Kathleen & May Topsail schooner Bottom right: Pilgrim Brixham trawler

9 The Medway Queen Preservation Trust applied to HLF for a £1.86 million grant towards Medway Queen restoring the vessel. National Historic Ships was asked to undertake a comprehensive review of the project. This outcome highlighted the complex and numerous issues that the project raises, particularly around replication rather than restoration. We were able to help by identifying potential contractors in the UK capable of undertaking riveting work, which will make it possible for the Trust to review its proposals.

SS The SS Robin Trust applied to HLF for a substantial grant for conservation works and the Robin installation of a new interpretation scheme. Although recognising the urgency of the conservation work (accelerated by the programme of the Crossrail project which will ‘lock’ the ship into its current berth for five years), the Advisory Committee was not convinced that the applicant had scoped the works adequately and therefore feared that the costs could be considerably underestimated. In line with advice from other sources, the recommendation was that the application be rejected and the applicant encouraged to re-apply after more thorough investigative work. We continue to work closely with the SS Robin Trust to strengthen its proposals.

National Historic Ships recommended to HLF that further conservation planning and project planning should be undertaken. In discussion, the applicant agreed to withdraw the application and we are continuing to advise.

HMS Funding was provided by National Historic Ships to help the Unicorn Trust hire Unicorn professional help to put together an application to HLF for a project planning grant. This application was successful, and National Historic Ships is contributing a sum of £2,000 towards match funding the £70,000 project which will plan the future conservation of Unicorn and her key role in the regeneration of the waterfront. The planning project will look at the business issues around Unicorn and develop the broad framework for any resulting design brief. We played an instrumental role in opening discussions with Dundee Council and our wish would be to see both Unicorn and Discovery benefiting from the regeneration. The Unicorn Trust is expected to make a full grant application to HLF early in 2009, and we continue to give advice and support to the project.

10 Top left: Medway Queen Paddle steamer Top right: SS Robin Coastal steamer

Bottom left: Ross Tiger Trawler Bottom right: HMS Unicorn frigate

11 Following the fire onboard the ship in May 2007, the Cutty Sark Trust submitted an application Cutty Sark to HLF for a grant increase to cover the consequential costs. The Committee had reviewed the Trust’s Stage 2 application in 2006 and had not been convinced by the methodologies being applied, particularly that of suspending the ship. The advice at that time was to defer the decision until a full review had been undertaken. In the new application, although a number of options were set out, the philosophical approach to conservation remained the same. While there is no doubting the importance of the ship and the need for an urgent solution, because there was no change, the Committee felt unable to support the application. Nevertheless, the HLF decided to allocate an exceptional uplift grant of £10 million.

National Historic Ships opposed the application by the Scottish Maritime Trust in City of Adelaide February 2006 to demolish City of Adelaide in order to fully investigate all options for saving this composite-built emigrant clipper – including the possibility of preserving her in sections. Two potential solutions are now emerging. The Chairman and Director visited a site in and there is plainly considerable local commitment to see the vessel returned to the city in which she was built. Subsequently, the Director visited Adelaide, South Australia, where again there is sizeable local support to see this significant emigrant ship preserved. Of course, there are many obstacles to overcome with both proposals but they demonstrate that our opposition to demolition was the appropriate recommendation at the time. Although we have a preference to see City of Adelaide remain in the UK, National Historic Ships will give equal support and advice to both parties, the priority is to save the vessel. However, should neither succeed and no alternative be found, North Ayrshire Council has adopted our guidelines which will be applied as conditions to any eventual deconstruction.

Prior to submitting a second application to HLF to support a new museum and the completion of the conservation of the ship and artefacts, the Mary Rose Trust invited National Historic Ships to join a review group to debate issues of significance and the interpretative approach. On receiving a request from HLF for comment on a new application, the Advisory Committee responded that this was a much stronger application with a more clearly developed storyline and recommended that it be supported. The Trust was subsequently awarded grants (subject to a successful Stage 2 application) totalling £21 million.

12 Top left: Cutty Sark Clipper Top right: City of Adelaide Clipper

Bottom: Mary Rose

13 Research and publications

Understanding Historic Vessels Infrastructure audit

After wide consultation with stakeholders, the first One of the most significant achievements of the year two volumes of Understanding Historic Vessels - was the completion of a national audit into facilities, Recording Historic Vessels and Deconstructing services and suppliers throughout the UK which can Historic Vessels - were made available as support the maritime heritage sector. Starting with a downloads from the website. The third volume, with survey of vessel owners, the audit gathered the working title The Conservation Pilot Book , has invaluable feedback from vessel owners about their been scoped and the first completed. It will set needs and requirements, as well as demonstrating out the principles for conservation (acknowledging National Historic Ships’ intentions to support them previous work such as the Burra Charter) to assist in this area. It also helped raise the public profile of those responsible for historic vessels in reaching National Historic Ships, through the events attended both a better understanding of, and the most to gather the information, and brought our name to appropriate solutions for, long-term sustainability. the attention of some 2,000 companies with The guide will be published in Spring 2009 in hard interests in the sector. copy and it is expected to also be available as a The principal outcome of the audit is a directory of download from the National Historic Ships’ website. suppliers, facilities and services, which will go online in Autumn 2008. 14 Meetings, forums and visits

Committee meetings Forums The Advisory Committee met three times this year: Three forums for vessel owners and stakeholders • , 21st June 2007 in the sector were held: • , 6th December 2007 • Merseyside Maritime Museum, 25th • Newcastle, 13th March 2008 September 2007 (attendance 32) • , 1st November 2007 (onboard the spritsail May —attendance 38) Sub-committee meetings The Registration and Finance & General Purposes • Dartmouth Yacht Club, 5th March 2008, Sub-committees also met three times each this (attendance 34) year. The topics for discussion ranged from moorings Registration: for historic vessels, insurance, relationships with • , 11th June 2007 the MCA, training and the intended demise of red • Liverpool, 26th September 2007 diesel. • Dartmouth, 6th March 2008 Finance & General Purposes: • , 1st May 2007 • Greenwich, 16th November 2007 • Bristol, 6th February 15 "Thank you for the invitation to your recent forum. It was a very interesting evening which

will no doubt bear fruit. Thank your team for organising such an invigorating event."

Owners of Sheemaun

Vessel visits Staff of National Historic Ships visited the following organisations and vessels: Centaur () Chiltern (Josher), Cuddington ( Weaver packet), Cedar (wooden canal float), Mendip (narrowboat), Mossdale (wooden dumb ), Black Country Living Museum - Core Collection: (narrowboat); Designated Ethel (wooden West Country keel – deconstructed), Speedwell (wooden dumb Wey Vessel: (narrowboat); Registered Vessel: Kildare (butty to President ). The barge), Scorpio (wooden long boat), Shad (narrowboat), Worcester (tunnel tug), following vessels were visiting the Museum at the time - Designated Vessels: Gifford Phoebe (day boat), No. 39 (narrowboat), Manchester (Bridgewater steam tug), (), Sharpness (icebreaking tug); Registered Vessels: Enterprise No. 1 (tug), Regulus (narrowboat). Pacific (tug) . Liverpool - Registered Vessel: Cactus (narrowboat). - Registered Vessels: Amsterdam (narrowboat), Black Countryman (narrowboat), Bramble ( narrowboat – new registration). Barton and Leigh - Designated Vessel: Pauline (short ); Registered Vessels: Rudd (narrowboat), Severn (short boat). The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port - Designated Vessels: Basuto (Forth & ), FCB 18 (concrete barge), Friendship (wooden horse boat), George (short - Core Collection: Stormy Petrel (oyster ); Designated Vessels: Kent boat), Marbury (Shropshire Union wooden ice boat), Merak (butty), Merope (tug), The King (excursion vessel) , LV16 (light vessel) . (narrowboat), Perseverance (steam dredger); Registered Vessels: Aspull Merseyside - Designated Vessels: HMS Bronington (minesweeper), Daniel Adamson (Leeds and Liverpool ice boat), Bacup (short boat), Bigmere (steel dumb barge), (tug-tender).

16 "Thank you for all your help during the past

two years. It’s been really appreciated." Scarborough Pleasure Steamers

Essex - Core Collection: Maria (fishing smack) ; Designated Vessels: Ripple (smack yacht) , Pioneer ( smack) , (spritsail barge); Registered Vessel: Edme (spritsail barge).

West Country - Core Collection: Kathleen & May (topsail schooner).

Gloucester Docks Festival - Core Collection: Kathleen & May (topsail schooner), Olga (pilot ).

Yorkshire - Yorkshire Inland Waterways Museum,

Dundee - Core Collection: HMS Unicorn (frigate); Designated Vessels: North Carr LV.

Ansthruther - Core Collection: (), Lively Hope (ring netter); Designated Vessels: Research (Zulu).

Dartmouth - Registered Vessel: Voyageur ( ).

Tollesbury - Designated vessel: Kenya Jacaranda (Brixham trawler).

17 Foundations for the future

most of the following attributes: Centres of Maritime Excellence will take two The National Ship Preservation Network • strategically placed within a region with good basic forms: where there is already an existing and Centres of Maritime Excellence access by water (whether coastal, estuarial or concentration of independent organisations and The infrastructure audit we commissioned in 2007 inland) and by road facilities, or where facilities have fallen into confirmed the view that one of the greatest • a mix of repair facilities and businesses, ideally minimal or complete disuse but nevertheless are challenges facing all historic vessels is access to a with space for hire for owners wishing to do well located geographically and offer regeneration support network which can provide the skills and their own repairs opportunities.

facilities needed to ensure their long-term future. • conservation-based businesses with capacity Ultimately National Historic Ships seeks to The reduction in shipyards in the UK which can and skills including the immediate maritime establish centres in the following regions: undertake specialist work, the declining number of dimension – such as historic building or • Northern apprentices and the lack of awareness of such transport conservation • training opportunities that are available could • associations with historic harbours, historic • North East seriously compromise the best conservation ships, maritime and industrial museums and • East Anglia intentions. education (particularly universities) and training • Thames Gateway Consequently, National Historic Ships has set as organisations, which can provide courses and • South Coast of England one of its primary priorities the promotion of a facilities to support ongoing training and • South West England National Ship Preservation Network through which research • West Country/South Wales owners can obtain and exchange information, • Northwest England • support from strategic bodies such as Regional complemented with Centres of Maritime Excellence • A specific centre for inland waterways craft Development Agencies, Learning and Skills where there are significant concentrations of skills, Councils and tourism bodies. expertise and facilities. Such centres would include 18 National Historic Ships will act as champion and catalyst for the overall network and individual centres; identifying where such centres might be developed; initiating discussions between potential partners; assisting in the creation of effective websites to market the centres and the wider support network, along with providing links to these new sites from our own website; and advising on funding packages (including grants) which may be available for skills development and training. We intend to work with all centres and relevant training/trade validating bodies to establish recognised quality standards. National Historic Ships is also uniquely placed to campaign within government departments as the potential for such centres crosses several departmental boundaries.

Locations for four pilot Centres of Maritime Excellence have already been identified. Two will be formally launched in 2008-09.

Casi Ann Lewis Jones, a recipient of a training grant. 19 Online services We recognise that the internet has become the primary tool in communicating key messages and advice to our diverse audience. A brief is being developed which sets out the requirements for a re-vitalised website, which will include the Directory of Skills and Services generated by the infrastructure audit and several advisory papers, including exemplar memoranda of understanding and articles of association; draft job descriptions for project directors and board members. There will also be case studies based on published information, which demonstrate how different ships earn their living. These will be developed into a ten year programme.

The new website is scheduled for re-launch in Spring 2009.

www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk

Sickle 20 Ice breaker Grants and Endowment Fund Board Bank Development of the National Register Although the Strategic Development Fund has Identifying suitable board members is a difficulty of Historic Vessels allowed a large number of vessels to undertake faced by many trusts. To assist, National Historic activities or effect repairs they may have Ships will establish a ‘Board Bank’ – a register of The criteria for inclusion on the Register will otherwise been unable to do, the overall sum willing individuals with skills and expertise that continue to be reviewed. It has now been agreed available in the Fund is modest. National Historic could benefit such organisations. that vessels built abroad between 1939 and Ships intends to seek further sums from DCMS 1945 to support the UK war effort are eligible for to increase the total Strategic Development Fund inclusion on the Register. to £100,000 annually. Currently, all vessels must be more than 40 feet Awards scheme Nevertheless, even this sum would not cover the The Strategic Development Fund has proved an to be on the Register. The National Small Boat cost of major works on a small vessel. Therefore enormous success with over £76,000 being Register (NSBR), developed by the National we will work with DCMS and other potential distributed this year. The next stage will be to Maritime Museum (NMMC), has an funding partners to establish a National Historic develop an awards scheme for best practice in upper length limit of 35 feet, so there is clearly Fleet Endowment Fund. This fund will be ship conservation. the potential for an important vessel to fall specifically aimed at long term maintenance and between the two registers. National Historic sustainability for the National Historic Fleet of Ships is working closely with NMMC to ensure Core Collection and Designated Vessels. complementarity between the two registers and to work towards the inclusion of small vessels from the NSBR which meet the NRHV criteria (excepting length, of course) into the National Historic Fleet. 21 The Registers MFV 74

Fifty-nine historic vessels were added to the National Register of Historic Vessels during the financial year 2007-08:

ASRP1218 (pinnace) Atlas (narrowboat) Avon (RASC fast launch) Banstead (narrowboat) Bellatrix (narrowboat) Billy Bray (Looe lugger) Britannia (tug) Capricorn (narrowboat) Concretian (concrete barge) Dove (narrowboat) Dredger 101 (dredger) Edme (spritsail barge) FMC 138 (Joey) Fountain (water-carrying barge) George Haig (rescue motor launch) Glad Tidings () Gwenna (yacht) 22 "I would like to express my thanks to the committee

for their decision to support us in our project" Owner of 2561 Blue Leader

Heather Bell (narrowboat) longboat) Valeur (landing craft) Henry Frederick Swan (lifeboat) Penros (RNLI lifeboat) Varlet (tug) National Archive of Hunt’s Kim (Sheffield keel) Perseverance IV (barge) Voyageur (Looe lugger) Historic Vessels National Historic Ships is establishing Hyperion (launch) Phoenix (rescue target towing launch) Golden Galleon (Fairmile ‘B’) on the this archive, in the first instance as a Ilkeston (narrowboat) Phyllis (Humber sloop) DV list was scrapped (after recording by National Historic Ships). repository of information for vessels Johan (ring netter) Saturn (Shropshire Union flyboat) SS Nomadic was added to the Core which have been lost or broken up, Jubilee (narrowboat) Scorpio (narrowboat) Collection; Spider T (Humber sloop) but eventually the intention will be to Juno (narrowboat) Sculptor (narrowboat) and Glala (ex-Mahalia, motor yacht) hold detailed information on all the Leo (butty boat) Sickle (narrowboat) were both added to the DV list. National Historic Fleet. Golden Lyonesse (lugger) Skylark (narrowboat) Galleon which was recorded prior to Malus (narrowboat) Southcliffe (Humber keel) her demolition was the first entry in MFV 74 (motor ) Spey (motor canal boat tanker) the Archive. Vessels at Risk List Mindsweeper (minesweeper) Spitfire (canal tug) There are a great many vessels under Nansen II (narrowboat) St Just (MFV) threat of one sort or another, but Nerissa (yacht) St Vincent (zulu) amongst these, there are several about SS Nomadic (ferry/tender) Stanton (narrowboat) which the Advisory Committee has Nutfield (narrowboat) Syntan (inland water craft) particular concerns. The Committee is Nuthatch (motor launch) The Floss (barge) taking advice on the best way of Orianne (narrowboat) TSR (Harbour Defence Motor Launch) monitoring vessels that face an Parbold (Leeds & Liverpool canal Usk (narrow tar boat) uncertain future. 23 Income and expenditure accounts

2007-08 2006-07

££ Income DCMS 177,000 170,000 Surplus funds carried forward 45,711 31,454 Total income 222,711 201,454

Expenditure Service delivery Staff costs (108,939) (86,341) Pensions (2,112) (3,618) NIC (9,985) (8,967) Protective clothing (775) (1,852) Total service delivery (121,811) (100,778)

Information, communications & technology IT maintenance 0 (3,600) Computer hardware 0 (210) Office machinery (3,502) (530) Stationary (3,431) (1,430) Post & packaging (514) (830) Telephones (42) (1,570) Total ICT (7,489) (8,170)

24 2007-08 2006-07

££ Marketing Trade shows (53) (280) Room hire (52) (550) Printing (21,323) 0 Subscriptions (56) 0 Total marketing (21,484) (830)

Utilities recharge (12,621) 0

Professional fees & finance sundry Consultancy (24,018) (31,960) Insurance (866) (880) Total professional & finance sundry (24,884) (32,840)

Committee outreach Hospitality (4,821) (1,450) Travel (20,742) (8,100) Accommodation (8,084) (3,250) Subsistence (686) (325) Total committee outreach (34,333) (13,125)

Total expenditure (222,622) (155,743)

Funds to carry forward 89 45,711

Note: Travel, printing and utilities are all significantly higher than in the previous year, but it should be borne in mind that during 2006-07, National Historic Ships was establishing itself, and therefore was not fully operational for the entire year.

Work on Spirit of Britannia , undertaken by Trinity Sailing Trust 25 Expenditure by category as a percentage of income

2007-08 2006-07

23%

Carry forward <1% 3% ICT 4%

6% 0% Recharges

10% <1% Marketing

16% 11% Prof. fees & finance sundries

15% 7% Committee outreach

55% 50%

Service delivery

26 Deploying our resources

The Advisory Committee gives its time on a voluntary basis and is supported by a professional team of four – the Director, the Office Manager, a Case Officer and an Administrative Assistant, as well as two part-time volunteers. This team concentrates primarily on: • strategic issues and policy • case work on individual vessels • advice to vessel owners and official bodies • development and maintenance of the National Register of Historic Vessels, including the assessment of new registrations • administration of the Strategic Development Fund. National Historic Ships also engages consultants to assist with aspects of its work and provide specialist knowledge, particularly to supply guidance for historic vessel owners. During the period covered by this Annual Report, work commissioned from consultants has included: • drafting Understanding Historic Vessels - Recording Historic Vessels and Deconstructing Historic Vessels • research into skills and services for an online directory • revision of vessel histories • development of a brief for an improved website • researching and drafting the Conservation Pilot Book

27 Appendix A:

The remit, targets and priorities of National Historic Ships

The Advisory Committee on National Historic Ships • to provide the leadership and strategic vision (ACNHS) was set up by the Department of Culture across the national historic ships’ community and Media and Sport (DCMS) in July 2006. Its remit wider maritime sector by acting as a focus for covers the whole of the United Kingdom with advice on aspects of the preservation of historic members nominated from the devolved vessels administrations in , Scotland and The Committee does not advise on issues relating to Wales. Staff are based in Greenwich with the director historic wrecks, which fall within the remit of the also working from his office in Bristol. The Committee Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck Sites. would like to record its appreciation of the support In order to fulfil this remit, the Committee aims to: received from the , which provides office accommodation in Greenwich, finance • encourage an awareness and understanding of the management support, Human Resources and IT through-life costs of restoring and maintaining services through a Service Level Agreement. historic vessels The Committee’s terms of reference are: • raise awareness among trusts and owners about

• to act as the primary source of advice to the good practice and fund-raising opportunities Secretary of State on national historic ship • provide guidance to trusts and owners about preservation and funding priorities business planning, interpretation and educational • to act as a source of advice to the Heritage Lottery programmes, to make ships become more self- Fund on preservation priorities and individual sustaining and attractive to new audiences applications it receives to fund historic ships, and to other public funding bodies 28 • develop and promote professional standards of • promote greater awareness of historic ship good practice for the conservation and restoration conservation and its benefits within government of historic vessels and to other organisations • promote the availability and standard of ship and • the state of the UK’s historic vessels and boat conservation skills and training, and sharing of evaluate the impact of current funding and policies. experience and expertise across the sector

• encourage better awareness of the importance of The Committee also has responsibility for the National skills to enable preservation, and promote Register of Historic Vessels and the development and opportunities for people to develop and maintain monitoring of an ‘At Risk’ Register. This provides an traditional ship building and repairing skills authoritative database of the historic fleet, enabling the Committee to fulfil its terms of reference. • liaise with universities and others in the UK and abroad on the development of innovative In addition, the Committee makes recommendations techniques for the conservation of historic vessels, to DCMS on the use of a revenue challenge fund by third parties to support activities relating to the and facilitate access to independent peer review of preservation of historic vessels. conservation techniques • advise on documentation and recording techniques in cases where vessels are beyond physical and economic preservation

29 AppendixB:

Members of the Committee and staff

- formerly director of the OBE The Advisory Committee Dr Campbell McMurray Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine, and the Royal Naval Museum,

(chairman) - formerly director of the Dr Robert Prescott Scottish Institute of Maritime Studies, University of St Andrews and an active crew member of the Fifie Reaper (co-opted) - member of the Board of Trustees of Sean Neeson the National Museums of Northern Ireland and an elected

- chief executive of the Waterways Trust, Roger member of the Northern Ireland Assembly Roger Hanbury is responsible for the museums, sites and vessels in Gloucester Docks, Ellesmere Port and Stoke Bruerne - formerly chief executive of the Captain David Newberry Warrior Preservation Trust

(co-opted) - senior curator of the industrial David Jenkins and maritime collections of Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum of Wales) - Tim served an apprenticeship as a shipwright and Tim Parr marine engineer at Vosper Ltd and is a qualified naval architect.

- master shipwright, formerly of Maritime, He also works as a consultant for the Heritage Lottery Fund. John Kearon Industrial & Transport Technology Conservation at the National Museums on Merseyside - member of the executive committee of John Robinson European Maritime Heritage and an adviser to the World Ship Trust

30 (co-opted) - solicitor and formerly director of the Jane Ryder Staff, external advisors and volunteers Scottish Museums Council

director and secretary to the Advisory Martyn Heighton Committee - former director of Merseyside Maritime Museum, - director of the ss Great Bristol Leisure Services, chief executive of the Mary Rose Trust Matthew Tanner MBE Britain Trust and National Trust territory director for Western England & Wales. A member of the HLF Expert Panel

- formerly master of Cutty Sark and office manager - member of the staff of the Captain Simon Waite Paula Palmer superintendent of ships for the Maritime Trust National Maritime Museum on secondment; formerly co-ordinator for the National Historic Ships Committee

Co-opted for Registration Sub-committee case officer - curator of ship models at the Simon Stephens - collections officer, The Waterways Trust National Maritime Museum, on secondment; formerly case officer Sophie Fowler for the National Historic Ships Committee

- one of the founding trustees of the administrator - formerly an administrator Captain George Hogg Petrunka Pancheva National Maritime Museum and initiator of the National Small with a software company in Bulgaria, then a volunteer Boat Register. membership assistant at the National Maritime Museum 31 AppendixB:

Volunteers and consultants

volunteer - formerly member of HM Customs web consultant - senior web developer at Ron Ellis Jim O’Donnell & Excise the National Maritime Museum

volunteer - Russian linguist and formerly web consultant - web editor at the National Roy Marsden Harvey Edser airports inspector Maritime Museum

consultant - freelance maritime researcher Hannah Cunliffe Sub-committee Finance & General Purposes Sub-committee Dr Robert Prescott (chairman) Roger Hanbury Campbell McMurray David Newberry consultant - formerly curator at the Dr Eric Kentley Matthew Tanner Martyn Heighton National Maritime Museum, now a freelance museum and Paula Palmer (ex-officio) exhibition consultant Registration Sub-committee John Robinson (chairman) John Kearon IT consultant - database specialist formerly Dorothy Mellor Tim Parr Simon Waite with IBM George Hogg (co-opted) Sophie Fowler ( co-opted) Robert Prescott (ex-officio) Martyn Heighton (ex-officio) 32 33 AppendixC:

The National Historic Fleet

The National Historic Fleet comprises the vessels of the Core Collection (vessels of national significance across the United Kingdom) and the Designated Vessel List (vessels of outstanding regional significance)

Core Collection

Name of Vessel Location Type Alfred Corry Norfolk and Class lifeboat HMS Alliance A Class submarine HMS Belfast Thames Class Bertha Eyemouth Dragboat Branksome Saloon launch RY Britannia Royal yacht/hospital ship Cabby Maylandsea Spritsail barge Calshot Southampton Tender HMS Caroline Belfast Challenge Bristol Tug City of Adelaide Irvine Clipper CMB 4 Duxford Motor boat Comrade Humber keel Corrie Gosport yacht Cutty Sark Greenwich Clipper RRS Discovery Dundee Polar research ship Edmund Gardner Liverpool Pilot cutter 34 M33 Monitor

Name of Vessel Location Type Excellent Drifter Lowestoft sailing smack HMS Gannet Chatham Sloop ss Great Britain Bristol Passenger sail/steamship Holland 1 Portsmouth Holland Class submarine HSL 102 Lymington High speed launch Jesse Lumb Duxford Watson Class lifeboat John H Amos Chatham Paddle tug Kathleen & May Topsail schooner Kindly Light Pilot cutter Kingswear Castle Chatham Paddle steamer Landfall Landing craft tank Lively Hope Anstruther Ring-netter LV91 Lightship Lydia Eva Lowestoft Drifter M33 Portsmouth Monitor Maria Maylandsea Fishing smack Mary Rose Portsmouth Carrack Bristol Tug HMS Medusa Southampton Harbour defence motor launch Mirosa Stack barge 35 The National Historic Fleet cont’d

Name of Vessel Location Type MTB102 Lowestoft SS Nomadic Belfast Tender Olga Swansea Pilot cutter Peacock Commercial narrowboat Peggy Castletown Yacht Prince Frederick’s barge Greenwich State barge Pyronaut Bristol Fire float Reaper Anstruther Fifie Result Co. Down Topsail schooner SS Robin West Dock Coastal steamer Sabrina Inspection launch Shieldhall Southampton Sewage dumping vessel Stormy Petrel Gillingham Oyster smack T3 Yeovilton lighter HMS Trincomalee Sailing frigate Newcastle Experimental craft HMS Unicorn Dundee Sailing frigate HMS Victory Portsmouth HMS Warrior Portsmouth Iron clad Waverley Clyde, Glasgow Excursion paddle steamer HMS Vigilant Faversham Customs cruiser Zetland Lifeboat 36 Trincomalee Sailing frigate

Designated Vessels -

Name of Vessel Location Type 199 - Naval Pinnace Portsmouth Service launch ADC St Osyth Sailing oyster dredger Advance (VIC 24) Victualling inshore craft Alaska Reading River launch Ludham Amy Howson South Ferriby Humber sloop B.A.S.P. Chatham Lifeboat Balmoral Glasgow Excursion vessel Barcadale Burnt Island Drifter Basuto Ellesmere Port Steam lighter Boy Peter Peel Trawler HMS Bronington Birkenhead Ton Class minesweeper Bruce’s Limekilns Drifter Cambria Sittingbourne Spritsail barge Carola Irvine Steam yacht HMS Cavalier CA Class destroyer Centaur Spritsail barge Cervia Tug 37 The National Historic Fleet cont’d

Name of Vessel Location Type Concrete Canal Boat Gloucester Barge Consuta Henley Umpires’ launch Coronia Scarborough Excursion vessel Daniel Adamson Liverpool Tug-tender Dolly Windermere Steam launch Doris Gillingham Duessa Clacton Motor yacht Elswick II Dumb lighter Esperance Windermere Saloon launch Esther Grimsby fishing smack Eva Henley Saloon launch FCB 18 Ellesmere Port Ammunition lighter FCB 52 Gloucester Dumb lighter Feasible Penzance Steam drifter Friendship Ellesmere Port Narrowboat Garlandstone Morwellham Quay Ketch George Ellesmere Port Leeds & Liverpool short boat Gifford Ellesmere Port Narrowboat Gladys Maldon Spritsail barge Glala Ipswich Motor yacht Gleaners Lochoilhead Trawler Golden Vanity Brixham Brixham trawler 38 Dolly foreground and Raven, Steam launch and Steam barge

Name of Vessel Location Type Governor Narrowboat Grab No. 1 Blyth Grab dredger Greta Faversham Spritsail barge Gularis Hull Motor yacht Gypsy Race Bridlington Grab dredger H.Y. Tyne Blyth Watson Class lifeboat Harriet Fishing smack Norfolk wherry yacht Hen Liverpool Dumb lighter Herbert Leigh Barrow-in-Furness Watson Class lifeboat HF Bailey Watson Class lifeboat HSL 376 Chatham Naval Harbour launch Humber Norwich Admiralty launch Hurlingham Thames excursion steamer Ironsides Faversham Spritsail barge Isabella Fortuna Wick Fifie James Stevens no. 14 Walton-on-the-Naze Norfolk and Suffolk Class lifeboat Janet Windermere Naval pinnace John Adams Bideford Naval pinnace John Constable Sudbury Horse-drawn lighter Kent Chatham Tug Kenya Jacaranda Tilbury Brixham trawler 39 The National Historic Fleet cont’d

Name of Vessel Location Type Kerne Liverpool Tug Kingfisher Yardley Gobion Saloon launch Kyles Irvine Steam coaster Lady Daphne St Katharine’s Dock Spritsail barge Lady of the Lake Ullswater Excursion vessel Lamouette Ramsgate Naval pinnace Largo Law Charlestown Fife Pilot cutter Leader Brixham Brixham trawler LV12 Lightship LV16 Borstal Lightship Lynher Maid of the Loch Balloch Paddle steamer Maidie Wroxham Broads yacht Manxman Sunderland Short sea ferry Marbury Ellesmere Port Canal ice breaker Mary Joseph Belfast Fishing lugger Mascotte Gloucester Pilot cutter Woolwich Upton Dyke Norfolk wherry May Ipswich Spritsail barge Medway Queen Kingsnorth Paddle steamer Merak Ellesmere Port Narrowboat 40 Gifford Horse boat

Name of Vessel Location Type Merope Ellesmere Port Narrowboat MGB 81 Bucklers Hard Motor My Alice Maldon Smack Navigator Dartmouth Admiralty MFV Nell Yacht North Carr Dundee Lightship Olive Wroxham Norfolk wherry yacht Our Boys Cornish lugger Panurgic Appledore Pauline Leigh West Country keel Penelee Oban Yacht Perseverance Ellesmere Port Grab dredger Pilgrim Cremyll Brixham trawler Pioneer Long liner Portwey W India Dock Tug President Dudley Narrowboat HMS President London Flower class escort vessel Primrose Rye sailing barge Provident Brixham Brixham trawler Queen Mary’s Shallop Greenwich Shallop Queen of the Lake Windermere Launch Ratho Princess Ratho Excursion vessel 41 The National Historic Fleet cont’d

Name of Vessel Location Type Raven Ullswater Steam barge Raven Windermere Excursion vessel Regal Lady Scarborough Excursion vessel Reminder Maldon Smack yacht Research Anstruther Zulu Ripple Tollesbury Smack yacht Rona Lymington Yacht Ryde River Medina Paddle steamer Sabrina 5 Gloucester Barge Sallie Maldon Oyster smack Seagull 2 Chatham Spritsail barge Severn Progress Gloucester Tug Shamrock Windermere Saloon launch Sharpness Trent & Mersey Canal Tug Sir Walter Scott Stirling Excursion steamer Solace Wroxham Norfolk wherry Souvenir D’Antan Windermere Saloon launch Spartan Irvine Victualling inshore craft Spider T North Lincolnshire Humber sloop ST 1500 Ramsgate Naval pinnace Swan Lerwick Fifie 42 Vigilance Brixham trawler

Name of Vessel Location Type Swan Windermere Excursion vessel Tahilla Southampton Cruise boat Teal Windermere Excursion vessel Telegraph Maldon Boston smack Tern Windermere Excursion vessel Thalatta Maldon Spritsail barge Thalia Chichester Cutter yacht Thames Esperanza Henley Saloon launch The Flying Fox Stratford Saloon launch The King Borstal Excursion vessel Thomas Tug TID 164 Chatham Tug Trimilia Woodbridge Ramsgate class lifeboat VIC 32 Crinan Ferry Victualling inshore craft VIC 96 Maryport Victualling inshore craft Vigilance Brixham Brixham trawler Violette Hoo Coastal schooner Waterlily Falmouth Saloon launch HQS Wellington London Sloop Western Lady III Torbay Fairmile B motor launch White Heather Woking Canal tug Willdora Sunderland Trawler 43 The National Historic Fleet cont’d

Name of Vessel Location Type William Gammon Swansea Watson Class lifeboat Wincham Liverpool Weaver packet Wingfield Castle Hartlepool Paddle ferry Xylonite Maldon Spritsail barge

In addition to the National Historic Fleet, The National Register of Historic Vessels also includes 823 registered vessels and a further 300 vessels which have moved abroad, been deconstructed, broken up, sunk or do not meet the criteria.

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