{"id":762,"date":"2024-03-22T13:36:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T13:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/?p=762"},"modified":"2024-03-25T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T14:43:50","slug":"the-guinness-fleets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/2024\/03\/22\/the-guinness-fleets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guinness Fleets"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guinness Fleets of Boats, ships and yachts<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Edward J Bourke<\/span><\/address>\n

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\"The

The Lady Olive<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The Guinness brewing concern had substantial maritime resources to support distribution of the famous beer.\u00a0 In addition the family spent a lot of their leisure on a range of fabulous pleasure craft.\u00a0 Initially the reach of the brewing concern expanded from 1790 thanks to the commencement of the Irish canal system.\u00a0 Barge transport enabled distribution of their beer from Dublin and import of malt from all parts of the country.\u00a0 This led to grain depots; maltings and beer distribution depots being situated on canal banks and ultimately brought about the decline of the tiny country breweries that served the smaller towns.\u00a0 In order to serve the UK market beer was shipped from Dublin port.\u00a0 Initially quantities were small, but from 1877 when the brewery at St James\u2019s gate expanded considerably a jetty was built at Victoria quay upstream on the Liffey and barges or more correctly lighters carried the beer from the brewery to ships in the port. From 1913 Guinness became ship-owners and used their own cross channel fleet to serve Liverpool, Manchester, London and Bristol.<\/span><\/p>\n

Guinness barges<\/span><\/h2>\n
Athy maltings at canalside<\/div>\n

The fleet of Liffey barges were in two main groups built in 1877 \u2013 1892 and replaced in the 1920s.\u00a0\u00a0 They ceased in 1961 when trucks replaced them and mostly went on to serve as sand barges working on Lough Neagh. They were too big for the Irish canal system and never served on canals except to access Lough Neagh.\u00a0 Canal barges served depots at Ballinasloe, Limerick, Athy and all points on the canal and Shannon navigation system. They were loaded at the Grand Canal Harbour or at the adjoining Guinness Harbour which was accessed through a channel under a lifting bridge known as the\u00a0Rupee Bridge<\/i>. Even shipwrecks have lighter moments. This ballad refers to the\u00a0Vartry<\/i>, one of the fleet of large steam barges or lighters which were used to transport Guinness stout from the Brewery wharf at Victoria Quay on the Liffey, down river to ships at Custom House Quay whence it was transported to Britain. The barges operated until 1963. The\u00a0Vartry<\/i>\u00a0was built in the Liffey Dockyard in 1902 and apparently sank in 1907 but was raised shortly afterward. The ballad was collected by Colm O’Lochlainn and published in More Irish Street ballads. In another incident the Guinness lighter barge\u00a0Docena<\/i>\u00a0sank near the Custom House on 18-8-1927. The skipper B. Holcroft describes meeting a sudden squall as he passed under Butt Bridge. He discovered he was in danger due to the amount of water shipped. He made for the pier but the mooring ropes had only been fixed when the barge sank. The men aboard scrambled ashore without injury. Only 167 of the cargo of 200 hogsheads of Guinness were salved. Two days later the barge was raised by the Dublin Port and Docks Board and found to be undamaged. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was the good ship Vartry That sailed the sweet Liffee, And the skipper had taken the casks aboard, A goodly companee. Blue were the labels, and azure blue, Proclaiming double x, But neither the skipper nor the crew Had dreamt of storms or wrecks. Now as she steamed by the Ha’penny Bridge, The engine raised a row, While a cloud no bigger than a midge Loomed up on the starboard bow. And as they steered by Aston’s quay, The lookout man grew pale, “I feared we’d not escape,\u201d says he, “McBirney’s summer sale”. And ere they reached the Customs House, Down in a wild vortex, The Vartry plunged, the cause was plain, She’d too much Double X. All you who drink of James Gate, (No matter what your sex), Take warning by the Vartry’s fate, Thro’ too much Double X.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name<\/span><\/td>\nBuilt<\/span><\/td>\nNotes<\/span><\/td>\nDisposed<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lagan<\/span><\/td>\nHarland & Wolfe 1877<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nSunk 1970s at Sandy Bay, Lurgan as foundations at Scotts<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shannon<\/span><\/td>\nAllsop, Preston 1883<\/span><\/td>\nDouble ended and could proceed forwards or backwards<\/span><\/td>\nSold and\u00a0 sank off Balbriggan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liffey<\/span><\/td>\nRoss & Walpole, Dublin 1888<\/span><\/td>\nCommandeered in WW1 for service in France!<\/span><\/td>\nWrecked at Skane flat Lough\u00a0 Neagh still visible<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lee<\/span><\/td>\nRoss & Walpole, Dublin 1889<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boyne<\/span><\/td>\nRoss & Walpole, Dublin 1891<\/span><\/td>\nCommandeered in WW1 for service in France<\/span><\/td>\nEmbedded in Hutchesons sand quay<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Slaney<\/span><\/td>\nRoss & Walpole, Dublin 1892<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nSunk at Tarmac as foundations for quay<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Siur<\/span><\/td>\nRoss & Walpole, Dublin 1892<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nLong of Cork worked on river Slaney<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Foyle<\/span><\/td>\nRoss & Walpole, Dublin 1897<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nSank on rocks near Lurgan 1950s<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moy<\/span><\/td>\nRoss & Walpole, Dublin 1897<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nJ Tinsley Belfast<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vartry<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0Ross & Walpole 65\/67 North Wall 1902<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nJames Transport London, then Belfast<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dodder<\/span><\/td>\nRoss & Walpole, Dublin 1911<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nBroken at Lees Carlingford 1946<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tolka<\/span><\/td>\nRoss & Walpole, Dublin 1913<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nHamilton Gabbie Comber co Down<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Docena<\/span><\/td>\nBuilt in Norwich Bought UK 1920<\/span><\/td>\nSank at Custom House but raised<\/span><\/td>\nScrapped 1950<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Farmleigh<\/span><\/td>\nVickers (Ireland) Alexandra basin\u00a0 1927<\/span><\/td>\nSold to RN 1938<\/span><\/td>\nUsed at Scapa Flow<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Knockmaroon<\/span><\/td>\nVickers (Ireland) Alexandra basin\u00a0 1929<\/span><\/td>\nSold 1938<\/span><\/td>\nJohn Hunt, \u00a0Leeds<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chapelizod<\/span><\/td>\nVickers (Ireland)\u00a0 Alexandra basin 1929<\/span><\/td>\nSold 1938<\/span><\/td>\nBlown up on Lough Neagh 1970<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fairyhouse<\/span><\/td>\nVickers (Ireland) Alexandra basin\u00a0 1929<\/span><\/td>\nSold\u00a0 To RN 1938<\/span><\/td>\nWorked on Humber and was at Dunkirk evacuation<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Castleknock<\/span><\/td>\nVickers (Ireland) Alexandra basin 1929<\/span><\/td>\nSold 1961<\/span><\/td>\nBlown up on Lough Neagh 1970<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clonsilla<\/span><\/td>\nVickers (Ireland) Alexandra basin 1930<\/span><\/td>\nSold 1961<\/span><\/td>\nSank in Lough Neagh during a storm in 60 feet depth of water<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Killiney<\/span><\/td>\nVickers (Ireland) Alexandra basin 1930<\/span><\/td>\nSold 1961<\/span><\/td>\nSunk 1970s at Ballyginiff point as foundations<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sandyford<\/span><\/td>\nVickers (Ireland) Alexandra basin\u00a0 1931<\/span><\/td>\nSold 1961<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Howth<\/span><\/td>\nVickers (Ireland) Alexandra basin 1931<\/span><\/td>\nSold 1961<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seapoint<\/span><\/td>\nVickers (Ireland) Alexandra basin 1931<\/span><\/td>\nSold 1961<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Guinness Company Ships<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Grainne\u00a0at Runcorn<\/div>\n

From 1913 when Dublin port was paralysed by the industrial unrest Guinness secured their trade by shipping most of their beer to the UK in their own fleet of coasters. Bottling plants in Liverpool and Runcorn served the UK and African export markets. The ships also served bottlers in London and Bristol by sea.\u00a0 Container and roll on roll off tankers replaced the ship\u2019s tanks until 1993.\u00a0 Trade now continues using the regular vehicle ferries. The trade was not without incident. The\u00a0Barkley<\/i>\u00a0was torpedoed, The\u00a0Carrowdore<\/i>\u00a0was bombed and the bomb lodged in her rails while the\u00a0Miranda<\/i>\u00a0struck the East Link Bridge. The\u00a0Lady Patricia<\/i>\u00a0was the first ship adapted with beer tanks to carry beer in bulk. These tanks were washed and steam sterilised en route back to Dublin after the beer had been discharged at Runcorn or Liverpool.\u00a0\u00a0 On one occasion as the\u00a0Patricia<\/i>\u00a0entered a lock on the Manchester Ship Canal the captain looked over the side and to his horror the lock was filling with frothy tank washings.\u00a0 Someone had started to discharge the rinsings of beer before they had reached the open sea.\u00a0\u00a0 The authorities were very strict about discharges in the canal which was suffering from serious pollution of all types and was filthy.\u00a0 He had to think quickly and ordered \u201cfull ahead on engines, full astern,\u00a0 stop engines\u201d\u00a0 the engines obeyed and the propellers churned up the filthy mud from the bottom of the lock.\u00a0 In the stinking ordure that was disturbed concealed the beer foam and nobody was the wiser. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Lady Olive<\/div>\n

The task was more advanced another day and the tanks were being steamed. Whatever following wind conditions prevailed the ship was shrouded in clouds of steam as it made its way past the South Stack and out to sea toward Dublin.\u00a0 An aeroplane passing overhead observed this strange sight and promptly reported that the Patricia was on fire and a lifeboat was launched to assist before all was declared safe. The\u00a0Miranda<\/i>\u00a0had a collision with the East Link toll bridge on the Liffey while outward bound one day. It was thought that her bow thruster had caused her to deviate from her course. More seriously on 10 November 1961 the\u00a0Lady Gwendolen<\/i>\u00a0ran down the\u00a0Freshfield<\/i>\u00a0lying at anchor during fog in the Mersey. The incident is widely quoted in Maritime case law. Ironically the\u00a0Lady Gwendolen<\/i>\u00a0(then called\u00a0Paros<\/i>) was herself rammed and sunk at anchor on 10 November 1979 at Ravenna. The\u00a0Lady Patricia<\/i>\u00a0was in reserve for the\u00a0Miranda Guinness<\/i>\u00a0for a few years and only operated when the Miranda was on annual overhaul. This gave an opportunity to be used for film work.\u00a0 When the\u00a0Patricia<\/i>\u00a0played the part of the emigrant ship in the film\u00a0Far and Away<\/i>\u00a0the first officer was admonished for daring to appear on the bridge during the important work of filming. He had merely thought it prudent to steer the ship. The\u00a0Patricia<\/i>\u00a0also played the mail boat in\u00a0Hear my Song<\/i>\u00a0(1991). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name<\/span><\/td>\nTons<\/span><\/td>\nBuilt<\/span><\/td>\nBought from<\/span><\/td>\nDisposed<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
W.M Barkley<\/span><\/td>\n569<\/span><\/td>\nAilsa, Troon 1898<\/span><\/td>\n1913,Kellys, Belfast,<\/span><\/td>\nTorpedoed and sank 1917<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carrowdore<\/span><\/td>\n598<\/span><\/td>\nBowling 1914<\/span><\/td>\nKellys, 1914<\/span><\/td>\nSold to Davidsons Belfast 1952, broken 1959<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clarecastle<\/span><\/td>\n664<\/span><\/td>\nBowling 1914<\/span><\/td>\nKellys, 1915<\/span><\/td>\nSold to Davidsons Belfast 1953, broken 1959<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clareisland<\/span><\/td>\n633<\/span><\/td>\nBowling 1915<\/span><\/td>\nKellys, 1915<\/span><\/td>\nSold, 1931 to Antrim Iron Ore Co and sank near Isle of Man 1939<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Guinness<\/span><\/td>\n1151<\/span><\/td>\nAilsa Troon, 1931<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nServed the Dublin to London trade to 1938, disposed 1963<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lady Grania<\/span><\/td>\n1252<\/span><\/td>\nAilsa Troon, 1952<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nSold 1976 renamed Lady Scotia Stranded On Pacific coast of Mexico 1981<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lady Gwendolen<\/span><\/td>\n1166<\/span><\/td>\nArdross Dockyard 1953<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nSold 1977 to Cypriot shipping\u00a0 renamed Paros and sank off Nova Scotia 1979<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lady Patricia<\/span><\/td>\n1187<\/span><\/td>\nCharles Hill Bristol 1962<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nBroken April 1993<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Miranda Guinness<\/span><\/td>\n1540<\/span><\/td>\nCharles Hill, 1976 Bristol<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nBroken April 1993<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\"Sailing

Fantome<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Empty barrels and hogsheads were stacked on the quays both at Custom House and at city quay.\u00a0 Sheltered from view there was a shady world of the Hoggers. This group of vagrants assembled on the dockside around the empties returning from the British market and consumed the dregs ofthe barrels that were available.\u00a0 The barrels were marked with red paint to indicate their contents and this paint or raddle was a paticular red colour.\u00a0\u00a0 These characters were also known as raddlers as it was suggested that their faces and beards were stained red from the raddle on the casks. The police would disperse them when they became excessively rowdy.\u00a0 Spunkers were a variety on the theme; they drank from overflowing barrels and casks that had frothed over in hot summer weather. Similar groups of woodeners or boilers targeted empty whiskey casks that they scalded with boiling water to extract the last of the spirit from the wood.<\/span>
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Some Yachts owned by the Guinness family<\/span><\/h2>\n

This is an incomplete list of the pleasure craft owned by the Guinness family. They ranged from racing yachts to super luxury steamers and sailing craft and even included sponsoring Jacques Cousteau\u2019s famous\u00a0Calypso<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Vessel<\/span><\/td>\nOwner<\/span><\/td>\nSize<\/span><\/td>\ncomment<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lady Olive<\/span><\/td>\nLord Ardilaun<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nStruck Rock in Corrib 7-2-1872, relieved Captain Boycott<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Medusa II<\/span><\/td>\nGuinness<\/span><\/td>\n627 ton<\/span><\/td>\n1906-1915, sunk as HMY Mollusc off Blyth<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sea Huntress<\/span><\/td>\nLoel Guinness<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nMarried Princess Gloria aboard, off Antibes<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cetonia<\/span><\/td>\nEdward Cecil<\/span><\/td>\nSchooner<\/span><\/td>\n1880<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ceto<\/span><\/td>\nEdward Guinness<\/span><\/td>\n106 ton<\/span><\/td>\nEntertained Prince Edward at Cowes 1886 accompanied by Mrs Keppel<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leander<\/span><\/td>\nRupert Guinness<\/span><\/td>\n90 foot yawl<\/span><\/td>\nWon King\u2019s Cup at Cowes<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Atlantis<\/span><\/td>\nLoel Guinness<\/span><\/td>\n216 ton<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Calypso<\/span><\/td>\nLoel Guinness<\/span><\/td>\n330 ton<\/span><\/td>\nIn the course of preservation at Brest<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fantome<\/span><\/td>\nArthur Ernest Guinness<\/span><\/td>\n139 ton<\/span><\/td>\n1906-1938<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fantome<\/span><\/td>\nArthur Ernest Guinness<\/span><\/td>\nEx Belem<\/span><\/td>\n1921-1951<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fantome<\/span><\/td>\nArthur Ernest Guinness<\/span><\/td>\nEx Flying Cloud, four masted<\/span><\/td>\n1938-1951<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rossaura<\/span><\/td>\nLord Moyne<\/span><\/td>\n1400 ton ex Dieppe<\/span><\/td>\n1933 \u2013 1940, Sank off Torbruk<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roussalka<\/span><\/td>\nLord Moyne<\/span><\/td>\n1400 ton ex Brighton<\/span><\/td>\n1931 -1933, Sank off Killary<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amo<\/span><\/td>\nArthur Ernest Guinness<\/span><\/td>\nEx ML 482<\/span><\/td>\n1928-1949, scrapped in Dublin<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rob Roy McGregor<\/span><\/td>\nJohn Guinness (banking family)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The Lady Olive<\/div>\n

In the 1880s, yachting became popular among the smart set led by the Prince of Wales.\u00a0 Cowes Week became the focus of lavish entertainment.\u00a0 The Guinness family took to the new fashion with gusto as befitted the new nobility.<\/span>
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\nIn the membership list of the Royal St George Yacht Club for 1924 the overall tonnage of yachts exceeding 5 tons was 3,893 and of this the Guinness family owned 1,538 tons. The Rear Commodore was the Hon A.E Guinness who personally owned 1,076 tons. One of his craft was a hydroplane\u00a0Oma II<\/i>. The most magnificent was\u00a0Fantome II<\/i>. The 611 ton, barque, originally named\u00a0Belem<\/i>\u00a0was built at Chantenay sur Loire in 1896 by the Dubigeon shipbuilding company.\u00a0 She was ordered by the French industrialist Fernand Crouan to bring cocoa from Brazil for the Menier chocolate factory.\u00a0 She continued this trade until 1914 when she was purchased by the Duke of Westminster who refitted her as a luxury yacht.\u00a0 Arthur Edward Guinness acquired her in 1921 and renamed her\u00a0Fantome II<\/i>.\u00a0 In 1921 he took his daughters Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh on a 40,000 mile cruise around the world.\u00a0\u00a0 Decommissioned in 1939, the Belem was abandoned in a creek at the Isle of Wight. An Italian foundation restored her as a sail training vessel in 1952 and she was bought by the Belem Foundation, sponsored by the French bank Caisse d\u2019Epargne in 1980.\u00a0 Since then the Belem has been based at Nantes as the last major French sailing ship. In 2005 she visited Waterford during the 2005 Tall Ships race and was photographed by John Colfer of Dunmore East. The keel of the\u00a0Fantome<\/i>\u00a0was laid in Livorno, Italy during the First World War. Designed initially as a destroyer, the hull lay unfinished. The Duke of Westminster ordered her completion as a 1270 ton yacht, Flying Cloud, in 1927. About 1938 Arthur Ernest Guinness acquired her.\u00a0 On his death in 1949 Fantome was sold in Seattle but remained abandoned there for fourteen years. Aristotle Onassis purchased her as a wedding gift for Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco, but she lay abandoned at Kiel.\u00a0 She became a cruise ship in 1969 and operated for Windjammer cruises in the Caribbean. The\u00a0Fantome<\/i>\u00a0sank off Key West during a Hurricane on October 27 1998. Captain March and all 30 West Indian crew were lost but passengers had disembarked when their trip was cancelled due to the bad weather.<\/span>
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\nAmo II<\/i>\u00a0was converted in 1928 by A.E. Guinness and brought to Cong. She was built in 1917 by Levis in Quebec as an anti-submarine boat\u00a0ML 482<\/i>. A.E. Guinness also bought her sister the\u00a0ML 575<\/i>\u00a0which he called\u00a0Amo<\/i>. The\u00a0Amo II<\/i>\u00a0sailed Lough Corrib as a pleasure boat before falling into disuse.\u00a0 She became the last boat to sail through Galway\u2019s Eglinton canal in 1954 before low bridges replaced the swing bridges and obstructed the waterway. Though refitted in D\u00fanLaoghaire it was not sold and was scrapped by Hammond Lane Company in 1954. The other\u00a0Amo<\/i>\u00a0may have been used for spare parts and may lie submerged at Cong. The name Amo (Latin I love) is derived from the initials of his daughters, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh<\/span>
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\nThe 1400-ton yacht\u00a0Roussalka<\/i>\u00a0sank on 1st<\/sup>\u00a0September off Killary Harbour.\u00a0 The vessel under captain Laidlaw had landed some guests at Killary bound for Ashford Castle. When the vessel was leaving the inlet he took a wrong course and struck Bloodslate rock near Fraebl Island. All aboard, including Lord Moyne and crew of 25, escaped without injury though she sank in 11 minutes. Originally named the Brighton, she was built by the Denny yard on the Clyde in 1903 as a railway steamer. Bought by Lord Moyne in 1930 she was refitted. A 500-ton oil tank was installed to enable her to cross the Pacific.\u00a0 Her turbines were replaced by diesels and one of her funnels was removed. Within a month Lord Moyne obtained the\u00a0Rosaura<\/i>, another Newhaven to Dieppe channel steamer that was lying disused at Newhaven. Built by Fairfield at Govan in 1905, the 1210 ton, vessel was named\u00a0Dieppe IV<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0 During WW1 she served as a troopship and hospital ship. In September 1933 she was sold to Lord Moyne and converted to an ocean going yacht. The 1933 refit included replacement of the Parsons steam turbines with Atlas Diesels, a funnel and third screw were removed and the extra accommodation increased her registered capacity to 1538 tons. Her appearance became uncannily like the\u00a0Roussalka<\/i>. In August 1934 Lord Moyne entertained the Prince of Wales and Mrs Simpson on a two week Mediterranean cruise from Spain to Genoa to escape the attentions of the press. The next year Prince Edward became King Edward VIII and abdicated.\u00a0 The\u00a0Rosaura<\/i>\u00a0was hired by the Admiralty as an armed boarding vessel in November 1939 and was mined and sank off Tobruk on 18 March 1941.<\/span>
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References<\/span><\/h2>\n