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==Steam yacht ''White Ladye''== [[File:The-White-Lady (Langtry Yacht).jpg|thumb|The ''White Ladye'']] Langtry owned a luxury steam auxiliary yacht called ''[[White Ladye]]'' from 1891 to 1897. The yacht was built in 1891 for Lord Asburton by Ramage & Ferguson of [[Leith]], Scotland, from a design by W. C. Storey. She had three masts, was 204 feet in length and 27 feet in breadth and was powered by a 142 hp steam engine. She had originally been named ''Ladye Mabel''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Ladye Mabel|date=1892–1893|publisher=Lloyd's yacht register|page=349}}</ref> In 1893, [[Ogden Goelet]] leased the vessel from Langtry and used it until his death in 1897.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mr Goelet Charters White Ladye|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/07/14/109725501.pdf|access-date=16 January 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=14 July 1893}}</ref> Langtry put the ''White Ladye'' up for auction in November 1897 at the Mart, Tokenhouse Yard, London. It was sold to Scottish entrepreneur [[John Lawson Johnston]], the creator of [[Bovril]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Mrs Lantry's Yacht Sold|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1897/11/25/101823101.pdf|access-date=16 January 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=25 November 1897}}</ref> He owned it until his death on board in 1900.<ref>{{cite news|title=Inventor of "Bovril" Dead|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1900/11/25/105755189.pdf|access-date=18 January 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=25 November 1900}}</ref> From 1902 to 1903, the yacht was recorded in the [[Lloyd's Register|Lloyd's Yacht Register]] as being owned by shipbuilder [[William Gray & Company|William Cresswell Gray]], Tunstall Manor, West Hartlepool, and remained so until 1915. Following this the Lloyd's Register records that she became adapted as French trawler ''La Champagne'' based in [[Fécamp]], northwest France; she was broken up in 1935.<ref>{{cite book|last=Daussy|first=Jack|title=The cod fishing trawlers Fécampois|year=1991|publisher=Imp. L. Durand & Fils|location=Fécamp|pages=37–40}}</ref>
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