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The crew of the Duncan yacht belonging to Lord Glenarvan, catches a shark in the waters of Scotland.When cutting the carcass, a bottle is found inside the fish, in which a request for assistance is written in three languages from a victim of a shipwreck.
Camper and Nicholson is a yacht design and manufacturing company based in Gosport, England, for over two hundred years, constructing many significant vessels, such as Gipsy Moth IV and Prince Philip's yacht Bloodhound. Its customers included Thomas Sopwith, William Kissam Vanderbilt II and George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough.
The ship was named either after Duncan Dunbar, the then owner of Duncan Dunbar & Co., or his father of the same name. [2] Under Dunbar's ownership the ship was engaged in the passenger and cargo trade between England and Australia. After Duncan Dunbar's death in 1862, the ship was sold to Gellatly, Hankey, Sewell & Co. [2]
Alexander Robertson & Sons was a boatyard in Sandbank, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, from 1876 to 1980.The yard was located on the shore of the Holy Loch, not far from the Royal Clyde Yacht Club (RCYC) at Hunters Quay, in the building that is now the Royal Marine Hotel, which was the epicentre of early Clyde yachting.
Author Peter Duncan investigates the circumstances of a damaged yacht and its crew who are taken under tow off the English coast, and the subsequent disappearance of the crew before they reach land. The mast is somehow radioactive but after replacement a geiger counter still picks up a strong reading. When they try to find the old mast on the ...
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Duncan – ocean yacht, In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne, 1867; USS Eel – submarine in Run Silent, Run Deep (1955) and Dust on the Sea (1972) by Edward L. Beach Jr. Erasmus – Dutch pinnace piloted by John Blackthorne in James A. Michener's ShÅgun, 1975; Erebus – Alaska by James A. Michener, 1988
After his younger brother David died in 1873 and his wife in 1874, Duncan adopted their young son, William Butler Duncan II (1862–1933). [ 4 ] The younger Duncan was a leader in American yacht racing and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1882. he served on the USS Yankee in the Spanish–American War .