Peggy

Two-masted schooner yacht built in 1791 at Castetown, Isle of Man. Equipped with Captain Shank's drop keel system. Her dimensions are: 8.05×2.29(d) m [26'42×7'50], ? tons.

1791 September: Launched at Castletown, Isle of Man, for the Quale family, Castletown, Isle of Man.
1796: Sailed to England and then brought overland to Lake Windemermere to participate in a regatta.
1936: Re-discovered and her lines were taken off by P.J. Oke for the Coastal and River Craft subcommittee of the Society for Nautical Research.

Today (1994) preserved at the Nautical Museum, Grellings Hill, Castletown, Isle of Man.

Select Bibliography

Basil Greenhill: Further Light on the Use of Drop Keels in the Eighteenth Century.
The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 54, London, 1968. pp 301-302.
Basil Greenhill: The Schooner Peggy.
The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 53, London, 1967. p 313.
Basil Greenhill: The Schooner Peggy: An Eighteenth-Century Survival.
The American Neptune Vol. 49 (1969), pp 54-61, 4 plates.
William Sailisbury: The Schooner Peggy of 1789, and her Boathouse.
The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 49, London, 1963. p 146.

Updated 1997-02-25 by Lars Bruzelius

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