Keywords: Painting of Steam Yacht (SY) Vanduara by Tommaso de Simone, 1906.jpeg Artwork probably Antonio de Simone or 1880 1877 - 1920 1906 gouache cm 40 6 61 6 accession number object history credit line exhibition history De Simone' 1906 ~ lower left signature / date S Y Vanduara ~ lower right The Vanduara an all-steel screw schooner was designed by George Lennox Watson and built by D W Henderson in Glasgow in 1886 Owned by Mr Stewart Clark of Dundas Castle South Queensferry for nearly twenty years she was registered at 337 tons gross 217 net and 450 Thames and measured 170 feet in length with a 24 foot beam Sold to J Mann-Thomson in 1905 he loaned her to the Admiralty for wartime duties as a submarine depot ship between September 1914 and February 1915 after which she was returned to her owner By 1920 she had been bought by Mersey Docks and Harbour Board prior to passing into American ownership in 1923 when she was renamed Frontiersman https //www bonhams com/auctions/11998/lot/116/ Bonhams London 13 Sep 2005 lot 116 PD-old-auto-1923 1920 Antonio de Simone II George Lennox Watson Steam yachts Images from Bonhams Paintings of ships |