Screw Steamer JACAMAR built by Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd. in 1882 for John Burns, Wemyss Bay, Renfrew, Yacht

Name	Official number	Flag	IMO
JACAMAR	85917	GBR
Year built	Date launched	Date completed
1882	20/04/1882
Vessel type	Vessel description
Yacht	Iron Screw Steamer 2 Masts
Builder		Yard	Yard no
Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow		Clydeholm Yard	309

Tonnage	Length	Breadth	Depth	Draft
301 grt / 193 nrt / 445 tm	168.4 ft	24.1 ft	12.7 ft	11.0 ft
Engine builder	Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow
Engine detail
C2cy 23",42"x36" 80nhp 420ihp 11kn, 1-screw by1936 re-engined C2cyl 310,770x620mm 38nhp

First owner	First port of register	Registration date
John Burns, Wemyss Bay, Renfrew	Glasgow	21/04/1882
Other names
1884 HMS IMOGENE - 1919 HMS IMPEY - 1919 MASR - 1925 CASTELROSSO - 1933 GEORGIOS - 1937 LOULIS
Subsequent owner and registration history
12/1883 The Admiralty, London - unregistered 15/5/1919 Ledger Hill by1924 Abdel Maguid Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Alexandria - reg Alexandria EGY 1924 Ahmed Eff. Ibrahim El Kouwedi, Alexandria 1925 Elia Lacherdis, Castelrosso - reg Rhodes (Rodi) ITA 1927 Giovanni Lacherdis and C Lambis, Castelrosso 1931 Evangelo Giorgio Luca, Castelrosso 1933 N A Moraitis and E G Loucas, Piraeus - reg Piraeus 1937 C N Machairas, Piraeus
Vessel history
5/1883 for sale as accommodation insufficient; replaced by yacht CAPERCAILZIE (Yd 321) 8/1884 after refit, arrived Constantinople for service with the British Ambassador During WW1 stationed in the Persian Gulf by1924 converted to passenger and/or cargo vessel; 366grt 211nrt 1925 316grt 120nrt, 159.4 x 24.8 x 12.0ft by1936 330grt 121nrt
Remarks

End year	Fate / Status
1939	Foundered 26/02/1939
Disposal Detail
26/2/1939 foundered off Cabo de Creus (Port Vendres for Valencia), "because it was too old to be seaworthy" (captain); all 23 crew saved by French destroyer TIGRÉ.

Jacamar 1882
Image courtesy of : The Field, 6/1882