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Sundowner (yacht)
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Sunday_4_April,_Ramsgate,_Dunkirk_Little_ship_Sundowner.JPG) Sundowner in Ramsgate Harbour, April 2010
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| History | |
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| Name | M/Y Sundowner |
| Namesake | Sundowner |
| Launched | 1912 |
| Refit | 1929 |
| Status | Museum ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Motor yacht |
| Tonnage | 26 grt (74 m3) |
| Length | 58 ft (18 m) |
| Beam | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) |
| Draught | 5 ft (1.5 m) |
| Propulsion | Gleniffer diesel engine, 72 hp (54 kW), single screw propeller |
| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Service record | |
| Operations: | Operation Dynamo |
Sundowner is a motor yacht formerly owned by Charles Lightoller, former second officer of the RMS Titanic.
She participated in the Dunkirk evacuation as one of the "little ships" as well as a number of commemorations of the event, and is now a museum ship at the Ramsgate Maritime Museum in Southern England.
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