The MV ''Yorkshire Belle'' is a pleasure cruiser based in

Bridlington Bridlington is a coastal town and a civil parish on the Holderness Coast of the North Sea in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is about north of Hull and east of York. The Gypsey Race enters the North Sea at its harbour. The 2011 Cen ...

East Riding of Yorkshire The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire to t ...

, England. She was built by

Cook, Welton & Gemmell Cook, Welton & Gemmell was a shipbuilder based in Hull and Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire. England. They built trawlers and other small ships. History Founding and move to Beverley The firm was founded in 1883 on South Bridge Road, Hu ...

as a replacement for the original ''Yorkshire Belle'', that was lost in the River Humber during the

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after hitting a magnetic mine, sinking with all hands.

Summary

''Yorkshire Belle'' weighs gross and has a length of over , a breadth of nearly and a depth of . With two eight-cylinder Gardner engines each giving 152 hp she can carry up to 198 passengers. The ship was fitted out with her diesel engines in 1951 and is the last of six pleasure boats from Bridlington that operated between the 1920s and the 1950s. She is fully licensed with a lounge bar and is equipped with a public commentary system for pleasure cruises and sightseeing tours along

Flamborough Head Flamborough Head () is a promontory, long on the Yorkshire coast of England, between the Filey and Bridlington bays of the North Sea. It is a chalk headland, with sheer white cliffs. The cliff top has two standing lighthouse towers, the olde ...

and the

Yorkshire coast The Yorkshire Coast runs from the Tees estuary to the Humber estuary, on the east coast of England. The cliffs at Boulby are the highest on the east coast of England, rising to above the sea level. The North York Moors National Park extends ...

. As well as cruises to Flamborough Head, there are also special extended cruises to the Bempton Cliffs RSPB reserve offering close-up views of the cliffs, lighthouse and caves. She was bought in 1982 by her current owner Mr Peter Richardson, who complained in 2007 about the UK's implementation of EU law restricting the ''Yorkshire Belle'' from sailing to

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from

. Under the EU ruling, trips for Class C vessels were not allowed to go more than from a point of refuge, but the UK implemented it as no more than that distance from their home port. Richardson stated that the ship had regularly sailed between the two Yorkshire ports for the a period of 15 years up until the ruling.

Awards

In 2008, she won Winner of ''

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'' Best Boat Trip in Britain and was highly commended in the ''Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Awards'' for 2017.

References

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