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}}{{Infobox ship image | Ship image=File:SB Edme 4836.jpg | Ship caption= Edme off Gillingham
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United Kingdom | United Kingdom|civil}} | Ship name= Edme after Malting’s Co product, English Diastatic Malt Extract (EDME) | Ship owner=*Horlock family of Mistley | Ship builder= John and Herbert Cann of Bathside, Gashouse Creek, Harwich | original cost= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=1898 | Ship identification=- United Kingdom Official Number 105425
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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=Thames barge | 120}} | 80|ft|m|2}} | 17.25|ft|m|2}} | 2.8|ft|m|2}} | Ship propulsion=Sails | Ship sail plan=Spritsail | Ship notes=- Website=http://www.edmebarge.com
}} | Edme is a Thames barge which was built in 1898 for the Horlocks of Mistley. She was registered in Harwich. She is one of two barge sailing today that have no auxiliary engine DescriptionEDME is {{convert|80|ft|0|in|m|2}} long, with a beam of {{convert|17.25|ft|m|2}} and a draught of {{convert|2.8|ft|m|2}}. She is assessed at {{GRT|50}}. HistoryShe was built of wood at Harwich in 1898 by Cann for F.W.Horlock. The United Kingdom Official Number 105425 was allocated. She sailed commercially until 1939 carrying malt and acid. During the 1939-1945 she served in Harwich Harbour as an anchor point for barrage balloons. In 1946 she was derigged and used as a timber lighter in Heybridge Basin. She then became a houseboat.[1] From 1971 there was a lengthy restoration by Ian Danskin at Maldon, Essex before she was bought by the Harman-Harrison Consortium, taken to St Osyth in 1992 and rerigged as bowsprit barge. She is now owned by EDME Consortium, and based at St Osyth. In 2013 she obtained a grant towards the cost of replacing a chine. Along with the SB Mirosa she still has no engine.[2] She is racing in 2017 in the Thames and Medway sailing barge matches. She is notable for her shallow draught. See alsoList of active Thames sailing bargesReferences1. ^{{cite web |title= Edme {{!}} National Historic Ships |url=https://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/register/2070/edme |website=www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk |accessdate=6 June 2018 |language=en}}
2. ^{{cite web |title=edme barge |url=http://www.edmebarge.com |website=edme barge |accessdate=6 June 2018 |language=en}}
Further reading- {{cite book|last1=Carr|first1=Frank|title=Sailing Barges|date=1951|publisher=Peter Davies Ltd|edition= Revised|accessdate=10 March 2018|ref=harv}}
- {{cite book|last1=Benham|first1=Hervey|last2=Kershaw|first2=Philip|last3=Finch|first3=Roger|title=Down tops'l : the story of the East Coast sailing-barges|date=1986|publisher=Harrap|location=London|isbn=0-245-54487-9|edition= 3rd.|accessdate=20 March 2018|ref=={{sfnref|Benham|1951}}}}
- {{cite book|last = March|first = Edgar|title = "Spritsail barges of Thames and Medway"|publisher = Percival Marshal| location = London|ref=harv| year = 1948}}
- {{cite book|last1=Walsh|first1=Richard|title=Kathleen : the biography of a sailing barge|ref=harv|date=1986|publisher=Terence Dalton|location=Lavenham|isbn=0861380460}}
External links{{commonscat|SB Edme (ship,1898)}}- Thames Sailing Barge Trust
- [https://www.merseamuseum.org.uk/mmbarges.php?rt=a&tot=6611&typ=name&ord=name&hit=1 Mersea museum barge database]
- Sailing Barge Association
- [https://www.sailingbargeresearch.org.uk/pages/active_barges_page_1.htm Society for Sailing Barge Research active barges]
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