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Name: ADVENTURESS
Type: Yacht
Launched: 12/10/1912
Completed: 02/1913
Builder: Hepple & Co Ltd
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 626
Dimensions: 342grt, 153nrt, 135.1 x 24.8 x 14.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (14, 22 & 36 x 24ins), 91nhp
Engines by: Hepple & Co Ltd, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1914: 135683)
History:
02/1913 AM Tree, New York
1914 Norman C Neill, London; registered at Southampton
1918 William Garthwaite (Marine Navigation Company of Canada Ltd), London
1921 William Kissam Vanderbilt II, New York; renamed EAGLE
1925 Carl G Fisher, Flodida
1925 Lord Inverclyde, Glasgow; renamed BERYL; registered at Glasgow
1931 James B Allan, Glasgow; renamed SCOTIA
1934 Sir John Humphrey, Glasgow; renamed ANGLIA
09/1939 Admiralty
1947 Parnassis SN Co "Efth Th Stoforos" SA, Piraeus; renamed ITEA
1956 Ioannou Bros, Piraeus
1961 Unknown owner; renamed KAPETAN STRATIS
1963 A & M Diamantis; renamed POLYCHRONIS
1974 Broken up
Comments: Built from designs by Mr JM Soper, MINA, London.
The cabin accommodation includes a dining saloon and smoking room
11/1914: Hired by the Admiralty as an auxiliary patrol vessel
Armed with 2 x 12pdr guns; Allocated pennant number N044
18/03/1918: Returned to owners
1925: WK Vanderbilt II traded EAGLE for Fisher Island in Florida
09/1939: Purchased by the Admiralty for use as an Armed Boarding Vessel
Allocated pennant number N45
1946: Sold by the Admiralty


Above photo as ANGLIA courtesy of John Leather