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Valhalla RYS was a steam yacht, much admired in her day for her beauty and unusual rigging. She was famous for her participation in the Kaiser's Trans-Atlantic Race of 1905, and the sighting of a Sea-serpent in the Atlantic that same year. She had several owners, most notably Joe Laycock a trans-Atlantic racing yachtsman and Olympian, and Lord Crawford, who employed her as a research vessel on three major voyages from 1902 to 1908, which resulted in the book Three Voyages of a Naturalist : Being an Account of Many Little-Known Islands in Three Oceans Visited by the 'Valhalla' R.Y.S., by M.J. Nicoll, published in 1908. During the Great War she served with the Royal Navy as a part of the Eastern Mediterranean fleet's Aegean Squadron during the Gallipoli campaign. After the War she became a F

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  • Valhalla RYS was a steam yacht, much admired in her day for her beauty and unusual rigging. She was famous for her participation in the Kaiser's Trans-Atlantic Race of 1905, and the sighting of a Sea-serpent in the Atlantic that same year. She had several owners, most notably Joe Laycock a trans-Atlantic racing yachtsman and Olympian, and Lord Crawford, who employed her as a research vessel on three major voyages from 1902 to 1908, which resulted in the book Three Voyages of a Naturalist : Being an Account of Many Little-Known Islands in Three Oceans Visited by the 'Valhalla' R.Y.S., by M.J. Nicoll, published in 1908. During the Great War she served with the Royal Navy as a part of the Eastern Mediterranean fleet's Aegean Squadron during the Gallipoli campaign. After the War she became a French-owned fruit carrier, before being wrecked off Cape St. Vincent in 1922. (en)
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  • 1919-09-09 (xsd:date)
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  • 1892-10-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Sold
  • Sold 1897
  • Requisitioned by theAdmiralty, 1915
  • Sold August, 1901
  • Foundered 2 December 1921, offCape St Vincent, Portugal
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  • 1892 (xsd:integer)
  • 1897 (xsd:integer)
  • 1901 (xsd:integer)
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  • Leased from George Marvin (en)
  • by F. Baudoin, Le Havre, France. (en)
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  • Ramage & Ferguson, Victoria Shipyard, Leith (en)
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  • Sold (en)
  • Sold 1897 (en)
  • Requisitioned by the Admiralty, 1915 (en)
  • Sold August, 1901 (en)
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  • Valhalla (en)
  • HMS Valhalla II (en)
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  • Converted into a commercial fruit carrier (en)
  • Repair and depot ship (en)
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  • Valhalla RYS was a steam yacht, much admired in her day for her beauty and unusual rigging. She was famous for her participation in the Kaiser's Trans-Atlantic Race of 1905, and the sighting of a Sea-serpent in the Atlantic that same year. She had several owners, most notably Joe Laycock a trans-Atlantic racing yachtsman and Olympian, and Lord Crawford, who employed her as a research vessel on three major voyages from 1902 to 1908, which resulted in the book Three Voyages of a Naturalist : Being an Account of Many Little-Known Islands in Three Oceans Visited by the 'Valhalla' R.Y.S., by M.J. Nicoll, published in 1908. During the Great War she served with the Royal Navy as a part of the Eastern Mediterranean fleet's Aegean Squadron during the Gallipoli campaign. After the War she became a F (en)
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  • Valhalla (steam yacht, 1892) (en)
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  • Valhalla (en)
  • HMS Valhalla II (en)
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