Name Fair Lady | National Historic Ships

Certificate no 995

Status Registered

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Details

Function Leisure Craft

Subfunction Yacht

Location Unknown

Vessel type Motor Yacht

Current use Private use

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Info required No

Construction

Builder Camper & Nicholsons Ltd, Gosport

Built in 1928

Hull material Steel

Rig None

Number of decks 1

Number of masts 0

Propulsion Motor

Number of engines 2

Primary engine type Inboard

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam

20.46 feet (6.24 m)

Depth

10.82 feet (3.30 m)

Length: Overall

120.89 feet (36.87 m)

Tonnage: Gross

199.00

Air Draft

To be confirmed

History

FAIR LADY is a twin screw, steel hulled motor yacht built in 1928 by Camper & Nicholsons of Gosport. Her engines are Klechner Humbeldt Deutz AG, 313 kw. FAIR LADY was launched 15th August 1927 at Southampton. Ownership of FAIR LADY passed from Monsieur Sultzbach to his fellow French yacht Club member Otto Bemberg a decade later. During the war, it's rumoured that her owner and Basque crew used her to ferry refugees from Naxzi terror to South America. But the log books of the war period have gone missing! Monsieur Bemberg has FAIR LADY re-engined and partically re-fitted by Camper & Nicholson in the 1950s. Two years after his death in 1982, she was passed into the hands of her present British owner in 1994.

Key dates

1995/6
Major refit including exterior to aft, saloon, crew accomodation and aft cabin. Designed by John Mainsford, work completed at Falmouth.
1950's
Re-engined and partically re-fitted by Camper & Nicholson.
1982
Purchased by a Canadian owner
1994
Purchased by present owner
1995
Major refit at Pendennis, Falmouth including an extension to the aft saloon and a rebuild of the crew accommodation
September 2018
Vessel advertised for sale (Classic Boat magazine, September 2018)