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On this page you can view photographs and information on Thames Barges that played a part in the Dunkirk evacuation. |
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Unusually, the Nancibelle was spritsail rigged and her main mast was stepped above the coach roof. She was designed by H.W. Harvey and was built by the Sittingbourne Ship Building Company, Kent in 1930 and her sails were by Putwayne. Her Official Number (O.N.) was 161498 and she measured 40.0 x 11.4 x 4.9 feet with a net tonage of 16.02 tons. By the start of WWII she had been fitted with a 2-cylinder Thoreycroft petrol engine. Nancibelle's name appears in several official records of the Little Ships which helped in the evacuation of Dunkirk and she is credited with bringing back ninety-seven troops in a single voyage. No more details are known at this time. Boats left in a decrepit and neglected state in much of the Carrick area of Cornwall could be sold off or even destroyed. That is the fate about to befall five vessels identified as abandoned by Truro harbourmaster Captain Andy Brigden. One of the boats classed as abandoned is the Nancibelle, a 45ft black barge lying partially sunk on Church Beach, Penryn.
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