A FINE BUILDER'S HALF-BLOCK MODEL OF THE STEAM YACHT TITANIA, BUILT BY RAMAGE & FERGUSSON, 1879

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A FINE BUILDER'S HALF-BLOCK MODEL OF THE STEAM YACHT TITANIA, BUILT BY RAMAGE & FERGUSSON, 1879
with cutaway funnel, safety valve extension pipes and masts, bowsprit, simple deck fittings and ink-outlined deck housing. The hull with portholes and rudder, is finished in black and varnish and secured to a moulded mahogany board with hand-written details to the reverse (wear, some parts missing) -- 9½ x 46in. (24 x 117cm.)
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Lot Essay

The iron steam yacht Titania was designed and built by Ramage & Ferguson at Leith in 1879. Ordered for Archibald Kennedy, 3rd Marquis of Ailsa, of Culzean Castle, Ayrshire, she was rigged as a screw schooner and registered at 186½ tons gross (127 net). Measuring 150½ feet in length with a 21 foot beam, she was a handsome vessel rated 100A1 by Lloyd's surveyors, and her motive power came from a 60hp. compound inverted 2-cylinder engine manufactured by Rankin & Blackmore of Greenock. Lord Ailsa kept her until 1890 when she was sold to Mr. Francis Stanier of Peplow Hall, Market Drayton, Shropshire, a fellow member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. Changing hands again in 1898, her last recorded owner was Djafer Fakhry Bey of Cairo who kept her at Alexandria where she was still rated 100A1 when surveyed by Lloyd's in July 1908. Removed from Lloyd's Yacht Registers in 1913 as "no longer a yacht", she appears to have been sold to the Imperial Russian Navy who operated her as an auxiliary minelayer in their Black Sea Fleet until her loss (reason unknown) in September 1916.

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