Amazon in 1889
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Amazon |
Builder | Tankerville Chamberlayne, Arrow Yard, Southampton |
Launched | 1885 |
Status | Private yacht |
General characteristics | |
Type | Screw schooner, formerly steam yacht |
Tonnage | 58 GRT |
Displacement | 84 long tons (85 t) full load |
Length | 102 ft (31 m) (114 ft (35 m) over spar) |
Beam | 15.1 ft (4.6 m) |
Draft | 8.25 ft (2.51 m) |
Propulsion | Motor and sail |
Notes | Designer: Dixon Kemp |
Amazon is a 102-foot (31 m) long screw schooner and former steam yacht built in 1885 at the private Arrow Yard of Tankerville Chamberlayne in Southampton.[1][2]
Designer Dixon Kemp intended her to be 'fast and a good seaboat' and her successful sea trials were recorded in the several editions of his definitive Yacht Architecture[3] (First edition published in 1885).[1]
In 2011, Amazon was listed as one of the world's Top 40 Classic Yachts and was the oldest vessel honoured.[4]