| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Percy F. C. Topham, Darland Hall, Wrexham. |
Glasgow |
11/02/1908 |
| Other names |
| 1940 BUNTING - 1940 FREEWILL - 1947 FREELANCE |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1918 Herbert A Payne, London
1922 Henry W A Adams, Cullompton, Devon
1925 William Exshaw, London
1928 John E D Shaw, Kirbymoorside, Yorks.
1937 Sir Spencer J Portal, London
1940 Admiralty, London
1947 J M Williams - reg King's Lynn
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19xx Hugh & Janet Bailey, Antigua - registered St John's, Antigua
By 1970 Foreign Properties Ltd., Bank Lane, Nassau, Bahamas.
1978 Government of British Columbia. |
| Vessel history |
1922 first auxiliary engines fitted - 80grt 54nrt
29/9/1940 acquired by Admiralty as auxiliary patrol yacht
22/10/1940 renamed BUNTING as a baseship at Cliff Quay, Ipswich
3/1944 renamed FREEWILL as an accommodation ship
1945 for disposal
Later based in the Caribbean
1976 represented Antigua in US Bicentenial "Operation Sail" tallships gathering at New York. |
| Remarks |
| Admiralty swapped names and roles of two yachts: BUNTING ex-MERLIN (1897, Mackie & Thomson Yd 184) became FREELANCE in 1940. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1978 |
Abandoned |
| Disposal Detail |
| On delivery to Government of Colombia (British Columbia?), ran aground on an off-shore reef near the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal. She was abandoned after being looted by armed locals and failure of refloating attempts. |
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