Classic steam and motor yachts, pre-WWII, 70' LOA +

[Maunsel]

I have accumulated a few thousand digital images of large (mostly 70 feet long over all) and old (pre Second World War) classic steam and motor yachts along with their histories. If anyone has an interest in this topic, I'd love to share information and pictures. I also have several issues of "Lloyd's Register of Yachts" and "Lloyd's Register of American Yachts" from which I can share specific yacht data.

I'm very interested in expanding and improving the collection to include more British and European yachts. I also have many artist depictions of classic yachts. Another aspect of my interest is in the wartime use of yachts as naval vessels of which I have many pictures as well.

If you have an old vessel in mind and would like to see a picture or information posted, just let me know. I may well have just what you are looking for.

I'll post a few pictures to give everyone a taste of what interests me.

[Maunsel]

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Did you work on the Kalizima when owned by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor? She was originally the Minona, built in 1906.

[Maunsel]

This is what she looks like today.

[Maunsel]

I agree about Kalizima. Why modernize a classic?
Tiger/Waverly II is a new one for me. I'd love to see a current picture. The article implies she's still around and restored.

[Maunsel]

I wonder if this is the same vessel.

[Maunsel]

A sad story indeed. There's always hope. Here she is in original glory as Hugh Chisholm's Aras II.

[Maunsel]

Check out Cangarda. It just shows what can be done. Who would have thought that basket case could come back as the gem she is today?
http://www.tricoastal.com/Cangarda/Cangarda.html

[Maunsel]

I think they used a real steam yacht in some of those sequences. I'd love to identify the actual vessel. It's a great filmed depiction of a small steam yacht. I'd say she dates from the 1890's or thereabouts. I'll need to search my 1928 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts to see what yachts of this vintage may have been located in Southern California at that time.