Ruby

Historical Context

Alfred Mylne's design practice encompassed vessels of diverse types and purposes. Single screw yachts represented a significant category within steam or motor-driven pleasure craft of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The design archive, containing thousands of drawings, documents the breadth of Mylne's professional output across multiple decades. Design 121's preservation within this collection attests to its completion as a formal design proposal, yet the archival record for this particular design remains incomplete. The reasons for gaps in documentation—whether attributable to wartime losses, archival dispersal, or original record-keeping practices—cannot be determined from available evidence.