Name Owl

OWL was built by Whites of Itchen, Southampton, to a design by Frederick Shepherd. She was built of pitch pine planks on oak frames and was originally engineless. Early in her life, between May 1912 and May 1913, she was fitted with a side propeller powered by a 2-cylinder AilsaCraig petrol engine, which was replaced soon afer by a 2-cylinder Bergius paraffin engine. In the early 1920s, her owner, N P Andrews, had her cut in two and lengthened from the original 41ft to 55ft 1in she is today.

Throughout the years, she was sailed by a variety of owners. In 1961, when owned by D Burnett, she was stolen, and rediscovered some years later across the Atlantic, in New Caledonia. In the 1990s, she went through a conservation project after having been found abandoned, and later participated in the Antigua Sailing Weeks in 1997 and 1998, as well as in the America's Cup Jubilee in 2001.

Since then, she has been based in the Mediterranean. In 2026, due to a storm, she was washed ashore on a beach in Mallorca, Spain, where she was at risk from being deconstructed by the local council. She has since been refloated and transported to Palma de Malllorca, and there are plans in place to restore her. She is currently fitted with a 1996 Perkins M90 diesel engine.