| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| James Galbraith, Glasgow and Wemyss Bay. |
Glasgow |
28/05/1877 |
| Other names |
| by1888 RE DEL MARE - 1888 SEA KING - 1909 POSEIDON (POSSIDON?) - 19xx PAPADIAMANDIS - 1931 ALEXANDROS PAPADIAMANDIS |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
c1880 Sir Henry Hope Edwards, Ashbourne, Derbyshire
1881 Edward W Walker, Dawlish
3/1882 Prince Alessandro Turlonia, Duca di Ceri (Duke of Ceri) - reg Civitavecchia
7/2/1885 Owner died
5/1888 Baron Bossière, France
1888 G H Collins, London (nominee of Cox & King) - reg London as SEA KING
1888 Henry Mavor, Buenos Aires, Argentina (nominee of Cox & King)
c1890 James Dickie, Putney, Surrey
c1902 Robert Kerr Holms-Kerr, Glasgow
1909 Martin Constant, Knole Park, Sevenoaks, Kent
1909 Theodore G Lymberakis, Piraeus - reg Piraeus
19xx (after 1918) G Tripos, Greece
1931 A N Cambanelis & Co, Greece |
| Vessel history |
1888 189grt 100nrt
1889 187grt 110nrt
by1930 converted to passenger ferry; 237grt 122nrt
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| Remarks |
Lloyd's Register of Yachts 1888 shows no owner but registered in France as SEA KING
She was bought in 5/1888 by a Frenchman, Baron Bossière, "who renamed her RE DEL MARE" (=SEA KING/KING OF THE SEA), but did not register her in France. The story of his attempt to raise a loan on an unregistered ship in order to pay off the crew, and the wheeze adopted to get round this, were told later in a court case involving a 3rd party creditor of Bossière. Suffice it to say that this led to some confusion over the next ownership.
The yacht brokers/designers Cox & King, having declined to make a loan, agreed to buy the yacht, through nominees, giving the Baron a buy-back option for 3 months. The first nominee was G H Collins, London who is shown as the owner in LR1890 (the yacht did not appear in LR1889 or 1892-1909). However, after the Baron's failure to buy back the yacht, it was transferred to another Cox & King nominee, Henry Mavor. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1934 |
Broken Up |
| Disposal Detail |
| 1934 broken up 2nd Qtr. |
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