About: Kittiwake

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Kittiwake was purchased in March 1921 in the Baltic to replace Slug; bought in Reval for £25 with a windfall from an American paper. She was named after the gull in Coward's British Birds. They made a number of short voyages in her, and liked sitting on her cabin roof in late evening in Baltic Port, listening to an accordion being played in a schooner across the water. She was replaced by Racundra, as even with scrap-iron ballast she seemed to be in danger of turning over, and they wanted a boat they could live on for months on end.

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rdfs:label	Kittiwake
rdfs:comment	Kittiwake was purchased in March 1921 in the Baltic to replace Slug; bought in Reval for £25 with a windfall from an American paper. She was named after the gull in Coward's British Birds. They made a number of short voyages in her, and liked sitting on her cabin roof in late evening in Baltic Port, listening to an accordion being played in a schooner across the water. She was replaced by Racundra, as even with scrap-iron ballast she seemed to be in danger of turning over, and they wanted a boat they could live on for months on end.
dcterms:subject	Boats Ransome Boats
abstract	Kittiwake was purchased in March 1921 in the Baltic to replace Slug; bought in Reval for £25 with a windfall from an American paper. She was named after the gull in Coward's British Birds. They made a number of short voyages in her, and liked sitting on her cabin roof in late evening in Baltic Port, listening to an accordion being played in a schooner across the water. She was a 16-footer, of around 6 feet in beam and drew 5 feet thanks to an addition to her keel. Arthur called her “a bit of a joke really”. She had a primus, and a tiny cabin with two “horribly narrow” bunks, which they did not use on short voyages. She was replaced by Racundra, as even with scrap-iron ballast she seemed to be in danger of turning over, and they wanted a boat they could live on for months on end. They got a dinghy for Kittiwake, a triangular box built by a coffin-maker, which was a “complete failure” and prone to capsizing. Kittiwake had orange curtains, a detail connecting her with the fictional Death and Glory.

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