Barnabas SS634

Barnabas SS634 - First registered 28 Oct 1881 as a Class 2 pilchard boat, with the number 634SS. Later she was re-registered as a Class 1 Mackerel driver and her number was switched to SS634. The number is said to have been chosen as it corresponded to the hymn "Will your anchor hold" in the Methodist hymn book used at that time. She is the only survivor from St Ives of the thousand-strong fleet of lug rigged seine and drift net fishing boats registered at Cornish ports at the end of the 19th centuary. She was built for Barnabas Thomas by Henry Trevorrow above Porthgwidden beach, St Ives. She is a dipping lugger. In 2005 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a substantial sum and that year at the age of 123 she returned from Penryn to West Cornwall where restoration began in Penzance Drydock. Visiting Tarbert, May 24