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QUEEN MARY
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QUEEN MARY

Shipbuilder (Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1879
Object NameSTEAM YACHT
MediumIRON
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 125.6' x breadth 21.1' x depth 10.6'
gross tonnage 169.51 tons
Object numberABDSHIP001188
About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 301
Subsequent Names: NAJADE; QUEEN MARY; URANIA; CIUDAD DE PALMA; CIUDAD DE ALCUDIA

Fate: unknown, Last in Lloyd's 1958 (no. 56858).

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steam yacht, 1 deck, 2 masts, schooner rigged, round stern, clench built, 3/4 female figurehead.

Owners:
1879: Registered at Aberdeen for subscribing owner;
John Gladstone Mackie, Auchencairn, Kirkcudbright.
(Source: Aberdeen Register of Shipping (Aberdeen City Archives))
1947-58: Compañía Tras Mediterranea, registered at Palma, Majorca.

Notes: Contract cost, £6,500 (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Engines: 2 compound surface condensing engines, 2 cylinders 19" and 34" diameter, 24" stroke, made by Smith Bros., Glasgow in 1879 (these seem to have been retained right until 1958).
Information on the history of QUEEN MARY is not recorded in Lloyd's Register until the 1947 edition. The register lists that the ship had several name changes but neither the years these took place, nor the owners, is not printed. Lloyd's implies that it was operating as a yacht as NAJADE; QUEEN MARY (again); and URANIA, but that it was not as CIUDAD DE PALMA and CIUDAD DE ALCUDIA .
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