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{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}}Wyvenhoe |infobox caption=Wyvenhoe}}>{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=Thames sailing barges - Maldon - geograph.org.uk - 541275.jpg | Ship caption=Wyvenhoe with Pudge on the Blackwater Estuary in 2007
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United Kingdom | United Kingdom|civil}} | Ship name= | Ship owner= | Ship ordered= | Ship builder=Forrest and Son Ltd, Wivenhoe | original cost= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=1898 | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship identification=United Kingdom Official Number : 110012 | Ship fate= | Ship status=Under restoration | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=Thames barge | 103.25}} registered 83.19 | 85|ft|m|2}} | 19|ft|m|2}} | 4|ft|m|2}} | Ship hold depth= | 3500|sqft}} | Ship sail plan=Spritsail | 10.5|kn|km/h}} | Ship complement= | Wivenhoe|2015}}
}} | SB Wyvenhoe is an 83-ton, steel Thames sailing barge. She was built by Forrest & Sons, Wivenhoe in 1898. She has the Official No. 110012. HistoryShe traded under sail until 1923 when she converted to a motor ship. She was rebuilt in steel in 1947, she continued to trade until 1982. She holds the record of having traded longer than any other British registered ship.{{sfn|Wivenhoe|2015}} She was owned in trade by London and Rochester Trading Company (LRTC) then rerigged as company yacht barge by Richard Walsh in 1986. She is now owned by Trad Sail Charters and based in Maldon.{{sfn|Thames Sailing Barge Wyvenhoe |2017}} See alsoReferencesSources- {{cite magazine |last1=Boss |first1=Peter |title=Pudge's Restoration |url=http://www.bargetrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/pudges+restoration+2003.pdf |via=Thames Sailing Barge Trust |magazine=Spritsail |date=Autumn 2003 |accessdate=18 February 2018}}
- {{cite book|last1=March|first1=Edgar|title=Spritsail barges of Thames and Medway|date=1948|publisher=Percival Marshall|location=London|ref=harv}}
- {{cite web|title=About the Sailing Barge WYVENHOE|url=http://www.wivencyclopedia.org/History/wyvenhoe-about.htm|website=www.wivencyclopedia.org|ref= {{sfnref|Wivenhoe|2015}}|accessdate=18 March 2018}}
- {{cite web|title=Thames Sailing Barge Wyvenhoe |url=http://www.wyvenhoe.co.uk/index.html|website=www.wyvenhoe.co.uk|ref= {{sfnref|Thames Sailing Barge Wyvenhoe |2017}}|accessdate=14 March 2018}}
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