The American steam yacht Warrior

One of the largest and most attractive of the many steam yachts designed by the great G.L. Watson, Warrior was built for Frederick W. Vanderbilt of New York by the Ailsa Ship Building Company at Troon in 1904. Registerd at 1,097 tons gross (396 net), she measured 282 feet in length with a 33 foot beam and carried a schooner rig. Powered by two triple-expansion engines fired from a pair of Scotch boilers, she could make 15 knots under steam and proved a hugely successful vessel. F.W. Vanderbilt kept her until 1914 and, after a brief tenure under the name of Wayfarer, she was bought by A.S. Cochrane in 1916 and re-christened Warrior. Shortly afterwards hired to the Royal Navy on "special service", she was released at the end of 1918 only to be sold again in 1920. Changing hands several times in the inter-war period, she was requisitioned again in 1939 and used as the submarine tender Warrior II until sunk during an air-raid off Portland on 11th July 1940.