The Royal Yacht Squadron steam yacht Fedora in the Mediterranean off Naples

Designed and built in Glasgow by D. & W. Henderson in 1881, Fedora began life as the quaintly-named Cushie Doo. Rigged as a screw schooner, she was registered at 250 tons gross (159 net and 358 Thames) and measured 145 feet in length with a 24 foot beam. Her original owner, Mr. W.H.S. Osmand, kept her for over ten years but in 1894 she was purchased by the 5th Marquis of Waterford who renamed her Fedora. He in turn sold her to the 5th Duke of Montrose at the end of the 1895 cruising season so it seems likely that this portrait was executed during her brief tenure under the Waterford colours. Changing hands several more times, she is last noted as Fedora around 1910.