Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,717 pages of information and 247,131 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Steam Yacht Iolaire (1896)

From Graces Guide

Built for Sir Donald Currie by Ramage and Ferguson, Leith. Yard No. 141. Launched January 1896

531 grt, 201.7 ft long, 27.8 ft wide, depth 15.5 ft.

Subsequent owners and names:
Solomon Barnet Joel, London, who renamed it Doris.
By 1930: Sir William T. Dupree, Bart., Southsea. Remamed Marion (Portsmouth)
By 1938: Philip E. Shephard, Portsmouth.

The above information is condensed from the Scottish Ships website [1]

Siemens Brothers and Co supplied a lighting dynamo rated at 66A 105/135V at 400 rpm, to be driven by a Bumsted and Chandler[2]


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Sources of Information

  1. [1] Scottish Ships website
  2. Siemens Bros, Woolwich, order book. Order dated 9 Sept 1895