Aura No. 7
Built in 1898 by John Hilditch of Carrickfergus
Select Boat
No.1 - Rita
No.2 - Pauline
No.3 - Leila
No.4 - Zaida
No.5 - Silver Moon
No.6 - Anita
No.7 - Aura
No.8 - Echo
No.9 - Hera
No.10 - Mimosa
No.10 - Silvia
No.11 - Deilginis
No.12 - Rosemary
No.14 - Gladys
No.15 - Bobolink
No.16 - Eileen
No.17 - Oona
No.18 - Erica
No.19 - Isobel
No.20 - Sheila

 

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YearOwner(s)
1898Judge Boyd
1919C A Boyd
1943A Stokes
1944A Cresswell (nee Stokes)
1951C E Hogg
1953W E Hogg
1967B & D Walls
1969D Walls
1979C Ian Malcolm to present day
 
Aura was inherited by Cecil Boyd in 1919 who, though permanently absent from Ireland, would not sell her during his lifetime.

He sailed his father's boat the 90 miles from Carrickfergus to Howth with the other four original seventeens in April 1898.