What happened to Racundra?

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I'm inspiring myself for the spring by rereading Racundra's First Cruise which has set me wondering what happened to Racundra. All I have found out from Google was that she was sold to Adlard Coles and renamed Annette II but there the electronic trail seems to go cold. I presume she hasn't made it to the present day - but how long did she last?
 
Wiki cannot be trusted. I found this which claims of John Baldock MP
Before the war he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and his wartime service included Russian convoy escort duties in 1942-43.

Returning to London, he bought the Racundra, a 30ft ketch built by Arthur Ransome (of Swallows And Amazons fame), and moored it at Chelsea, using it initially as a base from which to go to work at Lloyds. Insurance was not to be his career, and he and his wife Pauline, whom he married in 1949, opened a restaurant in Kensington. In 1946 he had joined the board of Lenscrete, a company supplying glass and concrete to the construction industry, and was its chairman from 1949 to 1992. He was also a director of Ciba-Geigy UK from 1957 to 1968.

So which is correct?
 
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