| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Arthur Anderson, Norwood, London |
London |
08/01/1861 |
| Other names |
| 1865 SULTAN? |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1863 Horatio Nelson Lay, London
1864 Government of India
1865 Sayyid Majid bin Said Al-Busaid, Sultan of Zanzibar |
| Vessel history |
James Anderson was managing director of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co, London
H R Lay, with Capt Sherrard Osbon RN, assembled a fleet of gunboats in UK for China, adding a storeship and this yacht - but not delivered to Chinese.
Sailed January 1865 from Bombay with Dr David Livingstone who presented her to the first Sultan of Zanzibar on the Indian Government's behalf c28/1/1865. |
| Remarks |
| New name in Zanzibar not confirmed (when the Sultan bought the former CSS SHENANDOAH ex-SEA KING - Alexander Stephen Yd 42 - as a yacht in 1866 she was renamed EL MAJIDI) |
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