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Specific Herreshoff Vessels / Re: Queen Mab/Vagrant

« on: June 14, 2019, 07:02:16 PM »

Purchased by Julio Garci-Crespo for Grupo Oceana A.C. on March 11, 1975 for $100,000. I'm unsure of the date Oceana sold it to the next owner, but I believe it was 1978 or 1979. There's a card in my father's files from Rose and Jeremiah Sullivan saying "still living on the 'Queen' and enjoying her beauty" saying they are spending Christmas in Pelican Harbor.

Attaching top half of Offer to Purchase. I also have copies of the checks and notary's receipt of payment and surveys.

Well The dates and ownership's are pretty complete and I don't see any Mexican Syndicates - but it's not to say there wasn't a partnership of some sort - and there is some discrepancy in the late 70's as to when Pringle/Brunson sold her Lammers - so there is a small 3 year window.

With that said it's doubtful anyone here would be against you and/or Mr. Connor's from contacting and saving Vagrant  .

Harold S. Vanderbilt      1910 - 1913        
Hendon Chubb       1913 - 1919      
R. C. Robbins              1919 - 1921
N. F. Ayers              1921 - 1926   
William A.W. Stewart  1936 - 1938   
Federal Ins. Co. of NY 1938 - 1940   
James B. Crockett      1946 - 1948   
Glenn Myers              1948 - 1950   
Stanley Runyan      1950 - 1954   
Robert Pringle              1954 - 1978   
Hans Lammers              1979 - 1985

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Specific Herreshoff Vessels / Re: Queen Mab/Vagrant

« on: June 14, 2019, 06:45:28 PM »

Late to this thread, but yes, there is information missing from the list of owners! My father owned the Queen Mab briefly, not for a Mexican syndicate, but as part of an ocean research organization named Oceana. It was short-lived, but there was a plan to explore the Pacific coast of Mexico and collaborate with the University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. I'm attaching a letter I just found looking through my father's files. I have more!

Nayeli

During the late 1960's and 1970's, we kept our boat at the Kona Kai Club in San Diego.  My friend's father, George Dixon, managed and skippered the Mab for several years.  It was my understanding the Queen Mab was owned by a Mexican syndicate at that time (early to mid 1970's).  This has not been mentioned in the chain of title spelled out in prior posts. Wondering is anyone one has any additional information regarding this period in the Mab's history.  Dennis Conner is located here in SD and I have contemplated contacting him to see if there might be some interest in retrieving her from Japan and bringing her home.  Just a thought.

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Specific Herreshoff Vessels / Re: Queen Mab

« on: June 14, 2019, 06:19:08 PM »

The Mexican syndicate was actually Oceana, an oceanographic research organization started by my dad to explore the Mexican pacific. I believe he consulted with Jacques Cousteau's son for this and that Scripps was involved, but unfortunately I don't remember the specifics! There's only a Spanish language article at the University of California I don't have access to:

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007252467

Hi from Alaska😁,
The Queen Mab was skippered by my friend George Dixon.
George sailed her for a Mexican syndicate. He had a all girl crew. He passed 2 years ago with a picture of his beloved Man hanging on the wall of his care room. Beside it his captian hat.

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Specific Herreshoff Vessels / Re: Queen Mab

« on: June 14, 2019, 06:09:04 PM »

George! I wish I could have put him and my dad in touch before they both passed away. George was captain for the Queen Mab when my dad owned it. I was only 6 or 7 but remember our outings with joy.

My friend George Dixon who passed away on Thanksgiving was the captain of this magnificent ship. He told stories of his all girl crew off the waters of Mexico. He had a picture of the old girl in his old folks home. If anyone has some stories of my friend please share those stories. Thank You, Brian

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Specific Herreshoff Vessels / Re: Queen Mab

« on: October 15, 2012, 01:27:40 AM »

Oh, I am also looking now at a typed page that says "Racing record of the Schooner Yacht Vagrant-Queen Mab 1910-1938". I'll see if I can scan it and post it here, if anyone is interested in looking at it.

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Specific Herreshoff Vessels / Re: Queen Mab

« on: October 15, 2012, 01:19:21 AM »

Hi Laurie,

My father owned the "Queen Mab" in the 70s with a society called "Oceana" and we kept her in San Diego...  I had heard she sunk as well. I heard this from my sailing instructor in Los Angeles in 1989. My dad passed away shortly after seeing this thread... he was so excited to hear she had not sunk and had planned on responding. I'm looking through an old folder of papers he kept... it looks like he bought the Queen Mab in 1975 from your father!!

Looking through the papers I see the following:

Yacht Name: Queen Mab, Ex: "Vagrant"
Length: 77', LWL: 58.9'
Designer: Nathaniel Herreshoff
Builder: Herreshoff Mfg. Co.
Bristol, Rhode Island
Year: 1910

And then... a Report of Survey, which lists "Robert L. Pringle" with an address in Hollywood, CA as the owner! The survey was requested by Bob Romberger in 1975.

I believe we have still have the Queen Mab's binnacle. I have to ask my mom about this! I have pictures of us on the Queen Mab as well. What a beauty!! My father eventually had to sell it as well, and was also heartbroken about it. I don't know all the details... There is a card, though, from a Rose and Jeremiah Sullivan in the file, and it says "Still living on the 'Queen' and enjoying her beauty... come visit in Pelican Harbor"...

It is so heartbreaking to have to sell a treasured boat. We're facing this now with my dad's Catalina 36. Not nearly the beauty of the Queen Mab, of course, but she was my dad's latest love.