Historic Victorian screw steamer Amazon now in Malta

摘要

In December 2016 I was on holiday in Malta when I noticed, in Sliema Creek, the 1885-built screw schooner Amazon, a vessel with an interesting history. She was built in Southampton as a steam-powered two-masted schooner and survived in this condition until her first diesel engine was fitted in 1937. After World War II she became a houseboat, being moored in Chiswick with all her machinery removed. In 1968 she was sold to the actor Arthur Lowe, who made her seaworthy again and fitted a Perkins diesel engine. After nearly 30 years in the Lowe family, she was sold in 1997 and sailed from Scotland to Malta for the first time.