A. Mylne & Co.

Alfred Mylne the First was apprenticed to the famous Scottish shipbuilders, Napier Shanks and Bell, and later worked as draftsman to G.L. Watson, where he drew the plans of the Royal yacht ‘Britannia’ the racing cutter first owned by the Prince of Wales [later King Edward VII] which passed to his son, King George V. Mylne set up his own office in 1896, which almost certainly makes his ongoing firm the world’s oldest yacht design firm in continuous production. He immediately established... more