Amélia IV

SS Amélia IV was a passenger ship built in 1900 as SS Banshee. As Amélia IV, she served as the Royal yacht for the Portuguese monarch from 1901 to 1910. From 1910 to 1937 she served the Portuguese Navy as an auxiliary ship under the name Cinco de Outubro.

The Royal yacht Amélia IV
History
Name:	1900-1901:SS Banshsee 1901-1911:SS Amélia IV 1911-1937:NRP Cinco de Outubro
Port of registry:	1900-1901 1901-1937
Builder:	Ramage and Ferguson, Leith
Launched:	17 July 1900
General characteristics
Tonnage:	899 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	230 feet (70 m)
Beam:	29.5 feet (9.0 m)
Depth:	18.5 feet (5.6 m)

History

Cox & King of London designed Amélia IV and Ramage & Ferguson of Leith built her for Colonel Harry McCalmont. Miss Lawson of London launched her on 17 July 1900.[1]

King Carlos I of Portugal purchased her for use as the Royal Yacht and she arrived in Portugal on 2 September 1901. She served a dual purpose as the Portuguese Navy also used her for oceanographic research. In 1908 she travelled to the Exhibition of the centenary of the opening of the Ports of Brazil with presents from the by then late Carlos I of Portugal.[2]

When the monarchy of Portugal was overthrown in 1910, Amélia IV transported the new young King, Manuel II, to safety in Gibraltar.[3]

She was then renamed Cinco de Outubro. The Portuguese Navy finally disposed of her in 1937.

References

1. "Launch of a Yacht at Leith". Edinburgh Evening News. Scotland. 18 July 1900. Retrieved 29 February 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
2. Wright, Marie. The Brazilian national exposition of 1908 in celebration of the centenary of the opening of Brazilian ports to the commerce of the world by the Prince Regent Dom João VI. of Portugal, in 1808. Philadelphia, G. Barrie & sons. p. 17.
3. "The Royal Family Safe at Gibraltar". Dublin Daily Express. Ireland. 8 October 1910. Retrieved 29 February 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.