Asgard (yacht)
Asgard at sea, near Dublin | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Asgard |
| Builder | Colin Archer |
| Laid down | April 1905 |
| Launched | August 1905 |
| Status | Preserved in Collins Barracks, Dublin |
| General characteristics | |
| Length | 15.5 m (51 ft) |
| Beam | 4 m (13 ft) |
| Sail plan | Gaff rigged |
Asgard is a 51-foot (16 m) gaff-rigged yacht. She was owned by the English-born writer and Irish nationalist Erskine Childers and his wife Molly Childers. She is most noted for her use in the Howth gun-running of 1914.
Asgard is sometimes mistaken for Dulcibella, the boat in Robert Erskine Childers's classic novel The Riddle of the Sands. This was based on a smaller vessel, Vixen, previously owned by Childers.