SPRINGFIELD is still in the Scillies - (March 2011)

SPRINGFIELD's new owner recently travelled to the Isles of Scilly with the intention of bringing her back to the South Devon Coast. SPRINGFIELD has been in the Scillies for at least 70 years, for many of those years she was running as a family owned passenger ferry. She is one of the best known vessels in the Islands as she has transported thousands of passengers over the years.

On the day of the launch she showed that she was reluctant to leave, after craning her up the trailer that was intended to take her to the water was found to be a little too short for the job, rather than risk damaging the vessel the launch date has been postponed until May when a longer trailer will be available.

SPRINGFIELD is now back in Devon - (September 2011)

On the 27th of September, the Morgan Giles motor launch 'SPRINGFIELD' was lifted onto the Isles of Scilly supply ship 'GRY MARITHA' for a passage to Penzance. From Penzance she was taken by road to Dartmouth where she is now based. Her new owner intends to remove her cuddy, her additional raised top forward planks, which are not original, and reinstate her as a Gentleman's Motor launch, in her original layout.

It is believed that this is the first time she has been out of Cornish waters since the 1930's. Built by Morgan Giles in 1926, she has full length planks of Teak on Oak. She remains in very good condition, with the intended work very much worth carrying out.