Phyllis is a Humber sloop, but rigged for sea-going trade on the Humber estuary and up and down the east coast. She is typical of hundreds of sailing sloops that carried cargoes on those waters. She is privately owned by two members of the Humber Keel & Sloop Preservation Society, and can often be seen in company with the HKSPS's keel Comrade and sloop Amy Howson.
Photograph by Kate Smith
Built 1907 by Warrens of New Holland for James Barraclough of Barton, Phylllis is 68ft long by 16ft beam and iron construction. She was engined in1943 and stayed with the same owner all her working life until sold off with the rest of the fleet in 1974. After an excursion to Scotland with a new owner she was bought by her present one, towed back to the Humber and is now being restored to her former self as a cutter-rigged Humber sloop of her time. Full details from http://www.sloopphyllis.com/
Phyllis (left) and Amy Howson (right). The two sloops at their winter moorings at Barton Haven, in March 2010. (The wheelhouse near the stern of Phyllis belongs to another vessel beyond her). This picture was taken during an exceptionally low tide and shows extensive mudbanks on the Humber.
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