Yacht Amazon.

[burgundyben]

Built in 1885 and still largely original hull.

I saw her in 2012 ish in Southampton at a Maritime festival where they said we could go aboard, but unfortunately on the day we couldn't.

Built as a steam yacht, lost her bronze prop and shaft to the war effort in WW2, sat as a house boat until late 1960's then bought by actor Arthur Lowe and returned to a sea going state.

She popped up on my facebook feed, it reminded me that I thought after she left Southampton, she dried out in a harbour in the Channel Islands and suffered some damage. I wonder if anyone knows how she is doing now?

Oddly now I can't find a new article about here getting stuck in the Channel Islands, so maybe I'm muddled!

 

[ianc1200]

Wasn't Lowe's son trying to sell it for many years? Had the impression it wasn't in good condition but not sure why I remember that.

 

[Kukri]

This is what Wikipedia has to say:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(yacht)

 

[Greenheart]

I remember the PBO article on Amazon in 1982, when Arthur Lowe was still alive. Back then I was just a...stupid boy.

 

[Poignard]

The sort of vessel whose owner wears a monocle.

 

[Aja]

I'm sure she was ashore in Malta being refurbished about five or six years ago.
Donald

 

[KompetentKrew]

I'm sure she was ashore in Malta being refurbished about five or six years ago.

The last entry in the wikipedia article linked by Kukri mentions Malta.

This must be her: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/mmsi:248000328

 

[Aja]

She was hauled up at Manuel (?) Island boatyard getting quite a bit of work done.

Donald

 

[Seajet]

I remember her being for sale in a brokers' window in Cowes in about 1970-72.

WIKI-' In an interview for a Dad's Army retrospective on BBC television in 2010, Lowe's co-star, Clive Dunn, described him sitting at the bar in the evenings when they were filming on location, consuming a drink which Lowe named 'Amazon' after his yacht. Dunn described the drink as comprising "gin and ginger ale, with a single slice of cucumber".[13] '

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lowe

I've always thought of his as an admirable, slightly sad tale, letting offers of work go by to stand by his wife.