Re: AMELIA CORK ISLE OF WIGHT
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AMELIA CORK ISLE OF WIGHT
jay dee 12/07/04
My interest is the Robert Stephenson connection.....please read on......
Titania
The first Titania was launched, fully rigged, from the Robinson and Russell yard at Millwall on the Thames, in early 1850. The Illustrated London News reported the event, as it later reported the disastrous fire which consumed the yacht in May 1852. Being iron her frame survived the fire and John Scott Russell rebuilt this yacht, calling her Themis, while at the same time building Robert Stephenson a new Titania which was launched in 1853. Both Titanias were schooners, the first 84.7 feet long, the second 91 feet as compared with America's 101.3 feet. Both had as their master Loving Corke, a member of a notable Cowes family of merchant and yacht service mariners who included pilots and the captain of the Southampton - Cowes ferry.
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Re: AMELIA CORK ISLE OF WIGHT
jay dee 8/20/09