Bluebird of Chelsea, formerly Blue Bird, is a motor yacht originally built for Sir Malcolm Campbell.
[1] Campbell sold her after three years, as his motor-racing experience made him wary of the fire risks of petrol engines aboard.
She joined the flotilla of "little ships" of the Dunkirk evacuation, though not without two false starts, first due to engine trouble and then over-crowding.
Her later wartime service was spent in Scotland performing transport work for the RASC, then later on the South coast around Weymouth and Gosport.
[5] A double-sided 1/24 scale plan feature by David Metcalf was included in a Model Boats magazine series in 1989.