Shenandoah (1902)

Designer(s) Theodore E. Ferris
Builder Townsend & Downey, NY
Launched April 12th, 1902
Specifications
Type 3-mast steel schooner
Displacement 300 metric tonnes
Length 54.35mm (sparred)
44.20 (on deck)
32.63 (waterline)
Beam 8.23m
Draft 4.65m
Sail area 888m²

The Shenandoah is a three-masted schooner with a steel hull, built in New York in 1902. She is a private yacht.[1]

History

This yacht was built for the US financier Gibson Fahnestock. Her first home port was Newport, and she sailed the Mediterranean Sea until 1905. The schooner has a strong resemblance to German Emperor Wilhelm II's Meteor III which was built in the same shipyard.

In 1912 she was bought by the German Walther von Brüning. Her new home port became Kiel and she was renamed Lasca II. She was confiscated by the British navy during the First World War.

In 1919 the yacht was acquired by Lord John Espen, who rechristened her Shenandoah. In 1920, the yacht was sold to the Italian prince Spado Veralli and rechristened Atlantis. The yacht then changed owners numerous times until it was seized by French customs in 1960.

In 1972 she was bought by French industrialist Baron Marcel Bich who returned her name to Shenandoah. Under his ownership she became a charter yacht, sailing mainly in the Mediterranean Sea.

In 1986 she was sold to Swiss businessman Phillip Bommer, who restorated her at the McMullen & Wing shipyard in Auckland.[2]

The yacht has since changed owners several times.

Notes and references

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  1. ↑ William Picard Stephens (December 1902), Yacht Designing and Racing in 1902 (PDF), 41 (3), Outing, pp. 379–
  2. ↑ McMullen & Wing

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