SB Grace

Grace was Masons second barge built at their own yard at Stoke, Ipswich in 1874 and named for George Mason’s daughter Grace Eliza. Along with the rest of the Masons fleet, she would have carried cement and mixed cargoes to and from Waldringfield.

Ernest Smith, one-time mate on Augusta, and his brother Isaac continued sailing during the Great War. Ernest as master of Grace and, together with Isaac, operated under the auspices of the Merchant Navy along the coast of East Anglia and Kent. Both earned the Mercantile Marine Medal and the British War Medal¹Waldringfield History Group Research.

Grace was abandoned as a hulk at Gravesend 1938 but is depicted in a postcard from around 1909 by which time she would have been trading for Masons or Cranfields

Summary

Name: Grace, Main trade: Cement, Port of Registry: Ipswich, Off. No.: 65373, Tonnage: 46, Where built: Ipswich, Builder: G.Mason, When built: 1874, Length ft.: 76.7, Beam ft.: 17.4, Beam ft.: 17.4, Draught ft.: 5.5, Owners: Mason 1874, Horlock 1913, History: Skippers Quantrill 1894 , Woodcock 1894, Strange 1894. Hulked Gravesend 1938, 

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