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HMS Sealark (1903)

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418: 68: 142: 61: 398: 195: 568:, who took this route in 1818. The plaque reads that it was "donated by the Naval Board Melbourne". A contemporaneous newspaper article said that "the anchor, which has been on Garden Island since the Sealark went out of commission, was landed at man-o'-war steps and conveyed to Darling Harbour railway station for transport to Tamworth". The memorial was erected in 1926. 40: 354:
On her shake-down cruise in the Bay of Biscay, September 1879, she was dismasted. The crew managed to cut away the broken rigging and she reached Falmouth under her own power. The high pressure steam engines also proved to be so problematic that they were replaced before she went into service with
588:, between 1900 and 1903, to W. K. Vanderbilt. Contemporary records, including the Lloyd's yacht registers from 1900 to 1904 and The Mercantile Navy List and Maritime Directories of the same period, confirm that 500:, she was paid off in 1914. In 1919, Australian shipowner Captain J. H. Patrick purchased her for £2500, converted her into a merchant ship at a cost of £15,000, initially renaming her 358:
In 1880, Lambert, with his family undertook a 2-year world cruise on board, covering almost 49,000 miles and published an account on their return titled
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the Lambert family. During the repair works, additional accommodation was added in the form of poop decks fore and aft.
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seized her to repay debts owed. After James Patrick Steamships Ltd failed, the bank sold her to William Waugh Ltd.,
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for a number of wealthy owners and in 1903 was acquired by the Royal Navy, serving until 1914. She was sold to
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was originally constructed in 1887 by Gourley Bros & Co of Dundee, and attributing ownership of
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and described as "the most luxurious private steam yacht ever built". She was registered with the
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The Voyage of the "Wanderer", From the Journals and Letters of C. and S. Lambert
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with a cargo of coastal guns, for a gun emplacement on a hill in Suva.
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and converted to a merchant ship for the Australian coast and finally
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This information conflicts with contemporary sources - see section
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OldWeather.org transcription of ship's logbooks March to July 1914
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is at odds with other reference sources by stating that
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work. She was originally a luxurious private auxiliary
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was still registered at Cowes, but now owned by the
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Index

HMS Sealark
HMS Investigator

Greenock
Royal Navy
hydrographic survey
steam yacht
James Patrick Steamships Ltd
hulked
Greenock
Charles Joseph Lambert
Royal Yacht Squadron
Cowes
Isle of Wight
Principe di Torlonia
American
William Kissam Vanderbilt
his daughter
Earl of Crawford


Admiralty
Portsmouth
China Station
Penang
Australia Station
South Pacific
World War I
German Empire
Suva

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