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More from the 'Bill of Sale', 1847
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More from the 'Bill of Sale', 1847
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Introduction: The Ondine
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Date: 10 March 1847
Description: Buying the Ondine, 1847
In 1847 the second Duke of Sutherland George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1786-1861) purchased a ‘Schooner Yacht’ called the Ondine from Mr. W. B. Ponsonby. The Sutherland Papers contain a number of large books containing vouchers and papers relating to the Ondine, including the original ‘Bill of Sale’ for the yacht dated 10th March 1847.
The ‘Bill of Sale’ reveals that the Duke paid two thousand three hundred pounds for the yacht which he purchased in March 1847 from ‘William Brabazon Ponsanby of Cowes in the Isle of Wight Esquire’. The Bill states that the Duke purchased ‘all that the ship of vessel called the “Ondine” of Cowes together with all and singular the masts, sails, sailyards and anchors’. On payment of two thousand three hundred pounds the Duke also took possession of ‘cables, ropes, cords, guns, gun powder, ammunition, small arms, tackle’ and ‘boat oars’.
The Bill also includes the ‘Certificate of British Registry’ for ‘the Ondine of Cowes’. The Ondine had been built at Cowes in 1845 by a man named Michael Ratsey. Information about the size of the vessel is also given, stating that the Ondine had one deck and two masts and was ‘seventy one feet nine tenths’ in length and ‘eighteen feet three tenths’ with a depth of ‘eleven feet’. The vessel also had ‘a woman figure head’.
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