The wooden yawl Valdora was designed and built for J.G. Douglas Kerr by William Fife & Son at Fairlie, on the Firth of Clyde, in 1903. Registered at 106 tons gross (55½ net), she measured 79 feet in length with an 18 foot beam, and had sails by Ratsey & Lapthorne. Performing well in the Clyde regattas in her maiden season, Valdora won the [German] Emperor's Cup race from Dover to Heligoland in 1904, and the following year took third place in the Royal London Yacht Club's handicap race from Cowes to the Clyde starting on 22nd June. Later owned for many years by Sir William Portal, she was last recorded in Guernsey in 1939.