Namoey

 (ex Simba Tato)

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The Bermudan Sloop built in 1959 to Alan Buchanan's Yeoman design

Namoey

  
 

Namoey : Sank, November 1976
Launched as Simba Tato in 1959, her second owner changed the name to Namoey which stuck. From the Lloyd's Registers I know that Namoey sank on the 24th of November 1976. João Carlos Fraga took what is probably the last photograph of Namoey and has the following to say about her fate; “Namoey set sail for Halifax, Australia, from the Marina in Horta in the Azores. She was under the command of experienced solitary navigator Eddy Bryant. In a violent North Atlantic storm Namoey was rolled by the waves. As the boat sank, Eddy was rescued by an oil tanker. It later dropped him off in Suez with only his passport and a few dollars in his pocket”.

Namoey Statistics
Built : 1959 by RJ Prior & Son, Burnham-on-Crouch, England
LOA : 34' 10"
LWL : 24' 9"
Beam : 8' 9"
Draught : 5' 6"
Displacement : 9 tons TM
Lloyd's Register : N° 300850
Signal Letters : ----
Sail N° 1092

Namoey Custodians & Home Ports
Christopher R Houchin (1976) Sharpness, Gloucestershire, England
JV Wynne-Jones (1974-1975) Poole, Dorset, England
Majors DV Fanshawe & DHC Gordon Lennox (1972-1973) Warsash, England
Major D Gordon Lennox (1971) Lymington, Solent, Hampshire, England
TWF Pitchers (1967-1970) Lymington, Solent, Hampshire, England
Sydney Gates (1961-1966) Lymington, Solent, Hampshire, England
Gordon F Jones (1959-1960) Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, England

Namoey Links
• Non found (August 2019)

Page last updated : August 2019

 
  

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