Artemis

Current boat name

Artemis

Boat class

7568

Function

Sports and Leisure

Type

Length (m / ft)

6.4 / 21ft

Beam (m / ft)

1.58 / 5ft 2in

Leeward

Keel

Propulsion

Steam

Date of build

1899

Place of build

Southampton

Present use

Sailing

* - Steam launch ARTEMIS was built in 1899 and launched in April 1900 and is recorded in the National Register of Historic Vessels (Nr.1474). She was built as tender to the 54 ton yawl ARTEMIS. Both vessels were built by Summers and Payne, Southampton. The launch machinery was supplied by Simpson Strickland, Dartmouth. The original two drum water tube boiler is a modified Thornycroft type as introduced by Frederick Strickland in 1892. The engine is a 1/4A quadruple expansion condensing type patented by George Kingdon in 1888. Contemporary photographs of the yawl in 1900 and 1904 show the tender suspended in the davits of the yawl. Little more is known of the tender until she was acquired from Webbs of Brightlingsea in 1951 by A.F.Leach. He brought her to Cambridge where her hull was restored and machinery put in working order by Banhams Boatyard using a substitute Merryweather B boiler. She was used regularly on the River Cam from 1953 until 1988. Following acquisition by the present owner in 1996 the machinery was removed and various repairs made to the hull by Two Tees Boatyard. In 2000, restoration of the original boiler and engine was completed by Historic Steam Ltd and the original 15½' x 21' propeller fitted following reconditioning by Bruntons. In 2008 a new water tube boiler made by Glyn Lancaster Jones was installed. Built as tender to 54 ton yawl Artemis by Summers & Payne of Southampton in 1899 and believed to have been fitted with Simpson Strickland steam plant Engine No 892 and SS boiler No 951. GH Aug 2011