‘Cam Jaguar’ undergoing the transformation into a three-masted schooner 1995.

From the original negative. Photo taken on 1st October 1995.

See the photos of the completed schooner leaving Grimsby on this website.

‘Ross Jaguar’ GY.494 was built in 1957 by Cochrane & Sons, Selby for Derwent Trawlers Ltd., Grimsby. In 1959, she was registered to Ross Trawlers and, subsequently, Yorkshire Trawlers, George Frederick Sleight, British United Trawlers, George Frederick Sleight (again), all of Grimsby.

In 1985, ‘Ross Jaguar’ was sold to Cam Shipping for use as an oil rig support vessel and renamed ‘Cam Jaguar’.

Between 1992 and 2005, ‘Cam Jaguar’ was converted into a three-masted, luxury sailing schooner and sailed out of New Zealand. She is now lying half sunk after she ran aground on rocks off the western coast of Malaysia.

Also in the picture are ‘Talona’ GY.130 and ‘Astrid’ GY.129.