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| Ship: | WINSTON CHURCHILL | | Arrived: | Before 30 July 1988 | | Departed: | After 30 July 1988 | | Arrived 2: | c30 Nov 1989 | | Departed 2: | After 1 Jan 1992 | | Career: | Tony Wilding has supplied a lot of information about the WINSTON CHURCHILL - he served on her for some time with Trinity House and then for over two years after they had sold her.
She was refitted at Sadd's Wharf, Maldon,
chipping the complete hull fron gunwhale to water line, and also the main deck. It was not popular with the locals. In August 1988 she sailed to Mahon, Menorca.
November 1989 the vessel returned to the River Blackwater from Mahon. She was anchored in the river off West Mersea.
1992 Thieves caried out a daring raid on a ship anchored in the River Blackwater. They managed to get aboard the WINSTON CHURCHILL and stole equipment worth £7,000
1996 converted to a yacht. | | Tonnage: | 1,451 gross | | Built: | 1963 | | Type: | Lighthouse vessel | | Owner: | Trinity House | | LR/IMO Number: | 5425865 | | Official No: | 304534 | | ID | 5425865 |
| Above: Former Trinity House boat WINSTON CHURCHILL laid up in River Blackwater. Photograph by Tim Green from Tollesbury.
Source: Mersea Museum / Peter Bibby Collection | 
| Above: Former Trinity House boat WINSTON CHURCHILL laid up in River Blackwater. Photograph by Tim Green from Tollesbury.
Source: Mersea Museum / Peter Bibby Collection | 
| Above: Geoff Pearce supervising Wessex Helicopter Winchman practising "sitting on the other side of the fence" at the helm of the lifeboat.
West Mersea Lifeboat HIMLEY HALL. Former Trinity House Vessel WINSTON CHURCHILL in the background. Date: After June 1991.
Source: Mersea Museum / Terence Smith |
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