Name: | VAGRANT |
Type: | Yacht |
Launched: | 28/02/1903 |
Completed: | 07/1903 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 774 |
Dimensions: | 440grt, 117nrt, 160.6 x 26.0 x 14.1ft |
Engines: | T3cyl, 150nhp; (1948: Oil engine, 2SCSA, 6cyl (260 x 450mm) |
Engines by: | W Sissons & Co Ltd, Gloucester; (1948: Fiat, Turin) |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 13.0knots (trials) |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 118613 |
History: | |
04/07/1903 | Charles P Markham, Newcastle |
1926 | Claude Grahame-White, Newcastle; renamed ETHLEEN |
1936 | Renamed LADY VAGRANT |
1940 | Government of Greece; renamed VRYSSIE |
1947 | Cia Atlantica y Pacifica SA, Panama |
1948 | "Sardamare" Cia di Nav per i Servizi Marittimi della Sardegna, Cagliari |
1948 | Renamed G M ANGIOY |
No later history known | |
Comments: | 25/09/1914: Hired by The Admiralty as an anti-submarine yacht |
Armed with 1 x 12pdr & 1 x 6pdr guns | |
01/02/1919: Returned to owners | |
08/1939: Hired by The Admiralty as an anti-submarine yacht | |
14/02/1940: Returned to owners | |
1948: Re-engined with a Fiat engine manufactured in 1943 | |
1964: Converted to a barge |
Above photo as ETHLEEN is courtesy of David Asprey
Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 02/03/1903