Sunbeam (steam yacht)
Sunbeam, date unknown | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Sunbeam, RYS |
| Namesake | nickname for CA Brassey |
| Owner |
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| Port of registry | London |
| Builder | Bowdler, Chaffer & Co, Seacombe |
| Yard number | 101 |
| Launched | 20 January 1874 |
| Completed | June 1874 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped, 1930 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | steam yacht |
| Tonnage | 334 GRT, 227 NRT |
| Length | 159.0 ft (48.5 m) |
| Beam | 27.6 ft (8.4 m) |
| Depth | 13.9 ft (4.2 m) |
| Installed power | 67 NHP |
| Propulsion |
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| Sail plan | three-masted barquentine |
| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h) |
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Sunbeam, RYS was a composite-hulled barquentine with an auxiliary steam engine, which was launched in England in 1874. She was a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. She was the yacht of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey until his death in 1918. His wife Anna Brassey wrote several popular books about their voyages aboard her, which were published between 1879 and 1889. After Thomas Brassey's death in 1918, Devitt and Moore acquired her and used her as a training ship. By 1922 the shipping magnate Walter Runciman had acquired her. She was scrapped in 1930.