Sunbeam II

A three-masted steel schooner built in 1929 by W. Denny Brothers, Dumbarton, as Yard No. 1229 to the design of G.L. Watson & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions 168'0"×30'9"×17'4" and tonnage 505 GRT, 292 NRT, 76 DWT and 759 tons displacement. Equipped with a 400 bhp aux. Atlas Diesel engine.

The figurehead and steering-wheel came from the three-masted schooner Sunbeam built in 1874 for Lord Brassey.

1929 June 20: Launched at the shipyard of W. Denny Brothers, Dumbarton, for Lord Runciman to be used as a private yacht.
1939-1945: Transferred to the British Government during the war and used as a submarine tender.
1946 August: Sold to Abraham Rydbergs Stiftelse, Stockholm, for SEK 275.000 and used as a sail training ship. Seems to have been renamed Sunbeam. The Swedish measurements were 195'6"[loa]×30'2"×17'6" and tonnage 637,39 GRT and 286,28 NRT. Assigned the Swedish signal SELZ.
1947-1948: In command of Captain Sam Svensson.
1948-1951: In command of Captain Lars Baecklund.
1951-1952: In command of Captain Tore Hagström.
1952: In command of Captain Sam Svensson.
1955 January 31: Sold to Rederi AB Clipper (Einar Hansen), Malmö, and was renamed Flying Clipper. Captain Tore Hagström was put in command.
1965 June 4: Sold to the National Mercantile Marine Academy, Piraeus, and was renamed Eugene Eugenides. The Greek measurements were 49,60×9,10 meters, 634,34 GRT, 225,71 NRT and 1300 tons displacement.

References:

Schooners, general references.
Moberg, Einar: För fulla segel. En bok om Abraham Rydbergs Stiftelses verksamhet.
Biblioteksböcker, Stockholm, 1957. 4to, 379 pp, ill., 9 plates.
Richardson, Mary: Sunbeam Ahoy! The first cruise of yacht SunbeamII.
A. Reid & Co., Newcastle upon tyne, 1932. 8vo, xii, 146 pp, plates.
Runciman, Walter: Sunbeam, 1922-1934. A private log.
8 vols in the library of the NMM. The log of the Sunbeam, 1922-1928, and of the Sunbeam II, 1930-1934.

Updated 1998-01-19 by Lars Bruzelius

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