1,000 BOAT PAGEANT
ROYAL THAMESIS
JUBILANT
ULLA
MANPOWERED CRAFT Cutters, skiffs and shallops
Much of the Thames’s history is bound up in the oared craft that constitute a large contingent in the Pageant. Thames Waterman’s Cutters are based on the 17th/18th century water ‘taxis’ in which licensed watermen ferried passengers across or along the river. With canopies and flags, modern cutters also serve as livery barges for the City’s worshipful companies.
The Royal Shallop is a larger, more elaborate evolution of the cutter, specifically designed for ceremonial duties. Three will be taking part in the Pageant: the blue-and-gold Royal Thamesis built by Mike Dennett in 1996 and now owned by the Drapers’
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Company; the Watermen’s Company’s Lady Mayoress in red and gold, built by Mark Edwards, and Jubilant, maroon and gold, also built by Mark Edwards for the Thames Traditional Rowing Association on the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. From the upper, non-tidal Thames, the traditional skiff is a light rowing boat with a hint of the Viking, more recently evolved from the Victorian Thames wherries. Larger ones can be hired for camping tours. Visiting oared boats include pilot gigs, Celtic longboats, curraghs, trows, a North- umbrian coble, a Scottish St Ayles skiff and even a flotilla of Venetian gondolas.
ONES TO WATCH FOR
DOGGETT’S COAT AND BADGE Newly qualified watermen still race annually for ‘Doggett’s Coat and Badge’, rowed from London Bridge to Chelsea and first run in 1715.
SKERRY Designed by Royal bargebuilder Mark Edwards, a Skerry is a cross between a skiff and a wherry. designed for use in the annual Great River Race.
ST MICHAEL’S MOUNT STATE BARGE The 1740 State Barge from St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall is the oldest boat afloat anywhere.
HEREFORD BULL One of the newest boats in the Pageant will be the Hereford Bull, replica of a River Wye Trow, built by T Nielsen of Gloucester.
BOAT RACE ORIGINAL Old Balliol, owned by Oxford University, is a 2004 replica of the heavy, clinkerbuilt boat used in the first University Boat Race in 1829.
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