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Type/Class Dinghy > Sailing Dinghy > One Design
Designer: F C Morgan-Giles
Builder: May, Harden & May
Year: 1914
Ship statusRegistered
Yard NumberUnknown at present
Original Sail NumberUnknown at present
Home PortExmouth
Known History
- 1914 - Built as a Cutter
- 1930 - Renamed Acis II and converted to a Sloop
- 1935 - Renamed Gardenia
- 2017 - Date: Currently undercover in Exmouth undergoing a full and total renovation and refit, due back in the water May 2019.
- 2019 - June: Returned to the water after a complete overhaul and refurbishment
ConstructionWood
LOA35 ft
LWL25 ft 6 in
Beam8 ft
Draft 4 ft 6 in
Displacement5½ Tons
OwnerRichard Cord
Previous Ownership
- 1915 - Mr May
- 1916 - Earl of Hardwick
- 1925 - H L White
- 1930 - T W E Varley
- 1935 - Hon. E J S Ward
- 1937 to 1949 - Lord Amherst of MacKaly
- 1950 to 1954 - Unknown (Warsash)
- 1955 - Lt.Col E J Warren (Bucklers Hard)
- 1964 to 1970 - Sydney A Gale
- 1993 - Brian Crawley
- 1994 - Charles & Susan Viner, Ian Stuart McKinnell
- 1999 - Alan Stone
- 2005 - William John Gregor
- 2017 Richard Cord
