| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| George L Watson, Glasgow |
Glasgow |
27/11/1896 |
| Other names |
| 1923 ISTAR - 1926 GOONDOOL (intended) |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
30/11/1896 Robert W Goelet, New York
1899 Mrs Louise Goelet, New York (after death of husband)
1912 Robert W Goelet, New York
1923 Jeremiah Brown & Co Ltd - mng G E Millner, Alderney - reg Glasgow
1925 Lt Cdr Charles L Kerr & Robin Thynne, London - reg Southampton
1926 Marine Products Ltd (Dr Alfred Ehrenreich) - mng Charles Robinson, Southampton |
| Vessel history |
10/1898 reported purchased by Sir Thomas Lipton for £80,000; but not completed
6/1917 requisitioned by United States Navy as section patrol vessel NAHMA (SP-771)
7/1919 arrived Clyde from Constantinople via Devonport; 9/1919 returned to owner
1923-4 made seven voyages for Sir Brodrick Hartwell from UK, shipping whisky for sale off Long island to smugglers during US Prohibition
1925-6 chartered to Prince Andrew of Russia for a world cruise with paying guests (this voyage probably never took place)
1926 intended renaming to GOONDOOL did not take place
1927 converted at Amsterdam or Antwerp to a shark-skin processing ship for making leather; 1598grt 617nrt
1928 voyage to Australia did not take place
by28/6/1929 operating at Tulear (now Toliara), St Augustine Bay, Madagascar, but went aground; later taken to Durban and laid up
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| Remarks |
Sister of Ogden Goelet's MAYFLOWER
1898 Rumoured [source?] bought by Lipton for £80,000 but Goelet family seems to have been repurchased, certainly by 1903.
Extensively used by Robert W Goelet from 1899 (his mother died in 1912)
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1931 |
Scuttled 28/03/1931 |
| Disposal Detail |
Q4/1930 sold for breaking up in South Africa
3/1931 bronze propeller removed and ship scuttled 4 miles off Durban Harbour |
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