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