The steam yacht Puritan in Mediterranean waters

Rigged as a screw brigantine, the multi-named yacht Puritan was designed by St. Clare Byrne of Liverpool and built by Ramage & Ferguson at Leith in 1886. Launched as the Miranda, she was registered at 250 tons gross (141½ net and 349 Thames), measured 138 feet in length with a 24 foot beam and was engined by her builders. Subsequently named Puritan and then Danakil in quick succession, by the end of the nineteenth century she had reverted back to being Puritan and was owned by the Earl Cowley of South Audley Street, London. Sold and renamed Goizeko-Izarra early in the twentieth century, in 1906 she was purchased by H. Echevarrieta of Bilbao (Spain) and renamed Cosme-Jacinta. Her new Spanish owner kept her at least until 1914 although he replaced her with a newer vessel of the same name in 1919, perhaps indicating his former yacht may have been a casualty of War.