23m Dutch steel motor barge, Liveaboard vessel,1930’s

 

Price Details

Asking Price: £95,000 GBP
Location: Maldon, Essex, CM9 Essex GB
Year: 1930
Condition: Good tidy condition, in survey, engine decommissioned.
Category: Power
Class: Dutch Steel converted ex Cargo Barge.
Keel Type: Flatbottomed with leeboards.

Description

Blackbird, 23m converted Dutch steel motor barge,
Built in the early 1930’s, originally a Sailing ex cargo carrying barge (she still retains her leeboards and winches). In 1945 she was converted to a motor barge with the addition of a enclosed wheelhouse.

In 1960’s she was then taken out of trade and fully converted to a liveaboard vessel , her previous name Drie Gebroeders. She was bought over to the UK in 2006.
Present owner has ” used her as a home for 16 years. Last out of water survey June 2023. Engine and associated gear in situ, decommissioned.

Measurements

Length Overall: 23.00m

Beam: 4.06m
Draft: 0.75m
Air Draft: 2.50m
Max Draft: 0.75m
leeboards Up: 0.75m
leeboards Down: 1.75m

Accommodation

Berths: 4  Cabins: 3  Heads: 1    Passenger Capacity: 4

Builder/Designer

Builder: Remkes Shipyard, Veendam, Holland
Designer: Dutch Built
Boat Name: Blackbird, ex Drie Gebroeders ( Three Brothers)

 

Engine

Engine Model: Decommissioned SAMOFA, 1945
Fuel Type: diesel
Engine Description: The engine and associated systems all remain in place but are all decommissioned and would required extensive servicing before use….
A twin cylinder naturally aspirated indirect raw water cooled, SAMOFA 1945.
diesel fuel with a dry exhaust. 2 to 1 reversing gearbox, mild steel single shaft.
20″ triple bladed Bronze propeller.
Diesel tank, deck fillers
Engine Transmission Description: Shaft drive

Construction:

Hull and decks and coamings all in 6mm rivetted steel plating with paint finish
A blunt bow rounded stern and rounded chines to a flat bottom.  Semi Displacement single hull.
Last, out of water survey in June 2023, for  insurance and a hull condition report.
Found to be fit for purpose, continued to be used as a static liveaboard vessel. Extensive over plating to the hull, now covered in layers of epoxy paint.
Weatherproof hatch cloth fabric used to cover her original wooden hatch boards covering the open hold area before conversion.
Hull, decks all steel, the later addition of the wheelhouse is a varnished wooden structure to the aft deck. Decks are fairly narrow,  2 x Velux panel sky lights set into the hatch boards over.

3 x Chimneys: – engine, wood burner and the Boiler.
All around the accommodation housing, windows and portlights have been let in, giving a light and airy environment below decks. Wooden planked sole boards.
Large rudder blade hung from her stern. Anodes replaced 2023.

Accommodation:

Entrance companionway steps, sliding hatch over, a pair of washboard doors. Enter into the accommodation, Bathroom, forward portside. Shower, Toilet and sink.

Forward under low foredeck, are the services a large heating oil tank and two plastic water tanks. The oil fired boiler with timer switch control and a hot water calorifier, suppling Hot water to the galley,

bathroom and the radiators throughout the accommodation. Access hatch above onto fore deck. Water tight bulkhead forward with door access into the forecastle.
Galley facility along portside deck. With sink. pressurized Hot and cold water. Gas cooker with hob oven and grill. Starboard seating area which could be used for dining area.
Through bulkhead going aft into the lounge/ fold down sofa converts to a double. a wood burning stove against aft bulkhead. Access corridor down starboard side, large stowage areas under the side deck. To port is the main cabin with double berth and wardrobe space.
Aft again, enter into what was original accommodation cabin with a double berth sited under the wheelhouse floor. Access ladder up into the wheelhouse, An enclosed sunroom, a large bench seating, access doors to side decks. Ships wheel.
On the aft deck stand 2 x gas bottles.

Good headroom, central heating and electrics throughout, (apart from under her decks….)

Equipment:

20kg Dutch Barge anchor and chain stowed in forepeak.
Manual windlass.
Ships wheel.
Safety Equipment: Fire Blanket.
Bilge pumps

Disclaimer: Disclaimer: The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.