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Goole Waterways Museum

The Wherry Trust

South Ferriby

The Barge Association.

Thames Barge Club.

Barton on Humber

Driffield Navigation.

Maritime Museum.

The Boat Museum.

Humber Yawl Club.

Spurn Point.

Kingston upon Hull

Trinity Marine

The Matthew

SS Great Britain

Maritime Britain

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Humber Keel & Sloop Preservation Society

Cog Boats

All keels and sloops had a cog boat as a tender: it would have been impossible to work a sailing vessel on the Humber without one.
Cog boats were used to run out the kedge anchor and warping line across a dock or canal, or to move crew about if the parent ship was at the wrong side of a waterway. In times of distress, they acted as the lifeboat or rescue vessel.

A full sized cog boat was twelve feet long and five feet six wide, clinker-built of larch on oak, made with copper fastenings.
Cog boats were always sculled standing up, by a single oar over the stern. Skipper’s whim, depending, some were also fitted with a mast and sail, either a standing lug or sprits’l
Cog boat sculling races were a keenly contested feature of the keel and sloop water sports events.

Cog boats typically took a lot of wear and tear and neither Comrade or Amy’s original survive. HKSPS have commissioned new, traditionally built cog boats for the ships for the 2004 sailing season.

 At right. Cog boats at Lincoln, a wooden keel is being broken up in the background & the cog boat to the foreground is from the Princess Royal, presumably she had suffered the same fate.