Peggy is an armed yacht built in June 1789[1] for George Quayle (1751–1835), MHK, a politician and banker on the Isle of Man.

Interest in her grew during the 20th century, and after WWII she was given to the people of the Isle Man to be held in trust by Manx National Heritage.

[2] A set of her spars is preserved with her, along with her armaments (six cannon and two stern chasers) and the winding gear employed to draw her into the boathouse.

She was fitted with sliding keels (progenitors of the modern daggerboard) not long after the invention of the technology by John Schank,[3] and she is the oldest surviving example of such a vessel.

Well-known correspondence between George Quayle and his brother, in the Manx National Archive, describes an expedition in 1796 over sea and land to Windermere, Peggy's victory in a regatta there, and her perilous journey home, aided by her sliding keels.

Manx National Heritage has embarked upon a programme of conservation aimed at the stabilisation and long-term preservation of Peggy.