City of Ragusa of Liverpool was a 20-foot yawl owned by Nikola Primorac. She twice crossed the Atlantic in the early days of 19th-century small-boat ocean-adventuring. The ship was exhibited in various places in England including the Crystal Palace, and finally at Liverpool Museum where she was destroyed in 1941.
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City of Ragusa of Liverpool was a 20-foot yawl owned by Nikola Primorac. She twice crossed the Atlantic in the early days of 19th-century small-boat ocean-adventuring. She carried the former alternative name of Dubrovnik, the birthplace of her owner. She was originally a ship’s boat of a merchantman. The ship was exhibited in various places in England including the Crystal Palace, and finally at Liverpool Museum where she was destroyed in 1941 when Liverpool was bombed. After the adventure,Primorac resumed his life as a tobacconist in Liverpool, and ultimately died in Rainhill Asylum. The City of RagUSA of Liverpool, no. 2,020, was picked up by Captain Hewkes in 1875, then presented to Birkenhead Park, Merseyside, for use on the lakes. After repairs, the ship was a prominent feature in the lower park for some years until it was torn down in the 1960s and replaced by a golf course. It is now on display at the Royal Castle Hotel, Chester Road, Tranmere, Merseyide, and the Royal Liverpool Museum, Liverpool, where it is on display until the end of the 21st century. It has been described as ‘a small boat with red strakes on the bottom and two strakes at the top’ and a’remained a small boat on the top with red and white strakes’ on the stern and top. It was also known as a ‘yawl-rigged’ boat, with square sails on both masts, spreading altogether 70 square yards of canvas, in eight or nine sails.
She had a ballast of 3,360 lb of iron, a condenser for distilling drinking water from saltwater, and there was coal on board, although cooking was done with a spirit lamp. Her tanks took 100 imperial gallons of fresh water, and she could carry three months’ victuals. In 1872, following the 1871 transatlantic crossing, she was exhibited at the Crystal palace, but there was an accident. When lowering the ship to allow visitor boarding, the jackscrew holding the keel gave way, causing a compound fracture. No No No Hayter managed to lift the boat as help came to lift it as well. The boat was eventually acquired by Mrs Simms, and was displayed at Royal Castle Hospital, Chester road, Transmere, for some 1875. It then went on to be used as a tourist attraction in Liverpool until the 1980s, when it was taken up by the Royal College of Art and Design. It also served as the home of the Liverpool Museum until the 1990s, and is still on display in Birken Head Park, Birkenside. It had a cargo-ship race involving the Hypathia. It carried the English ensign and the US ensign in 1870 and 1871, and had a gaff topsail and staysail and jib.
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