Name Lady Nancy

LADY NANCY was designed by A W Bonnersen and built in 1893 in Skovshoved, Denmark, by N H Neilsen, for English Chief Engineer F D Marshall. 

In 1899 she was owned by Hoffjegermester Greve A. Moltke. Korsør.  In 1903 she was wned by Bygmester Chr. Jacobsen and given the name CHRISTINA.

In 1905 she was registered in Royal Danish Yachtclub as being LADY NANCY and owned banking director Einar Damm of Copenhagen. 

From 1907-1911: Owners Th. Henze & Marius Petersen. København where she returned to her original name. 

In 1918 until 1933 the yacht was purchased by Nils Bertels Lydersen, son of Nils Andreas Lydersen, owner of a major shipping company in the south of Norway.

 In 1939, she was purchased by R Stray of Arendal, who in the following year sailed her to Grimsby with 5 men to escape the German occupation of Norway, during the Second World War. After the war she remained in England under the Grimsby and Cleethorpes Yacht Club, who owned her until 1965, when she was purchased by G Hannaford, who raced her along the East Coast

In 1984, LADY NANCY was purchased by B and F Collyer, wardens of Reads Island, Upper Humber, and in 1990 she was purchased by J Green, who restored her as a Bermudan rig. Sometime after 2018, she was purchased by the current owner, who set about restoring her.

Update, July 2023: Vessel currently for sale