The steam yacht Wintonia in coastal waters

Launched as the Ladye Maisry in 1894, Wintonia was designed and built by Day, Summers & Co. at Southampton and rigged as a schooner. Registered at 168½ tons gross (109 net & 233 Thames), she measured 138 feet in length with a 19 foot beam and was powered by one of her builder's own compound 2-cylinder engines. Purchased by F.H. Punton of Aberlady, Longniddry, Scotland in 1896 and renamed Wintonia, he kept her throughout the Edwardian era although, by 1914, she was owned by the yacht builders J.G. Fay & Co. of Southampton. Hired briefly by the Admiralty as a harbour tender between November 1914 and April 1915, she was afterwards sold to Captain W.J. Herivel and Lt.-Cdr. S.P. Herivel who owned her jointly until the mid-1920s when she was sold to T.B.F. & W.E. Rees of Athens where she remained until the late 1930s when she disappears from record, believed scrapped.