Registration number 1615
Status Archived
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Details

Function Leisure Craft
Subfunction Yacht
Location NONE
Vessel type Motor Yacht
Archive reason Disposed
Current use None
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No
Info required Yes

Construction

Builder Dickie, A M & Sons Ltd, Tarbert
Built in 1911
Hull material Wood
Rig None
Number of decks 1
Number of masts 1
Propulsion Motor
Number of engines 1
Primary engine type Diesel
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
11.48 feet (3.50m)
Length: Overall
51.84 feet (15.81m)
Tonnage: Gross
25.00

History

KAMI-NO-MICHI is a gentleman's motor yacht, built by A. Dickie at Tarbert on Loch Fyne in 1911. She was designed by J. A. MacCallum and was registered with the official number 129565 and the call sign MCED. In later years, she operated as a tourist boat, offering trips around the distilleries of the Scottish islands. Her hull is carvel built of pitch pine with sawn oak frames. She has a pointed bow and a raked straight stem with a cruiser stern. Her one timber mast has a steadying sail rigged and the current engine is a Gardner inboard diesel, with six cylinders and seventy-two brake horsepower, made in 1954.  It is believedthat she was commandeered by the Royal Navy during WW1.

In the mid-1950s, KAMI-NO-MICHI was moored on the Menai Straits at Beaumaris, Angelsey and was in regular use there.  She was owned by Charlie Mack (C.G. Mack) who was the chairman of the Liverpool and North Wales Steamship Company.  The company's pleasure steamers operated regular tourist sailings between Liverpool and the Menai Bridge during the summer months and these ships swept past KAMI-NO-MICHI's moorings, just north east of Gallows Point.

Although this vessel has been disposed, we are lacking information on this particular vessel.  If you have an past details please contact us.

Key dates

  • 1911

    Vessel built by A.Dickie at Tarbert on Loch Fyne

  • 1950s

    Vessel moored on the Menai Straits at Beaumaris, Anglesey

Sources

Motor Boat and Yachting: A Boat of My Own: Kami-no-Michi, pp36-40, February 1986     

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