KING'S HOLIDAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 27, 31 July 1936, Page 9

KING'S HOLIDAY

LUXURY CRUISE

LADY YULE'S YACHT CHARTERED

(Received July 31, 10 a.m.)

LONDON, July 29.

The captain of Lady Yule's £250,000 yacht Nahlin has been, told that the King has chartered the yacht, which is lying at Southampton, for a holiday cruise with a small circle of friends. The yacht is newly painted in a cream colour with a Cambridge blue waterline. The King will probably ga aboard on August 1 or 2.

Two destroyers will escort the Nahlin, which was chosen because the Royal yacht is' too large to enter the small bays the King is anxious to visit. He will make shore excursions at suitable points.

Lady Yule, who is believed to be the richest woman in Britain, removed her personal belongings yesterday. The Nahlin has a crew of 50, but accommodates only.eight guests. It is the biggest and most luxurious yacht afloat, and has cruised from New Zealand and ths South Seas to Alaska.

The Nahlin will leave Southampton tomorrow for Dalmatia, while the King and his party are travelling, possibly by air, to join it. The duration, of the cruise will be three or four weeks, mainly along the Dalmatian coast.

The Nahlin, a vessel of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, visited New Zealand in 1932. It was launched from a Scottish yard in April, 1930. Of 1600 tons, it lias an. overall length of 300 ft, a beam of 36ft, and a depth to the main deck of 21ft It has a speed of 17.5 knots, and is equipped with huge water and oil-fuel tanks for long voyages. The Nahlin carries a 40-knot speed-boat with a 220 h.p. Scripps engine, leather upholstery, and chromium fittings, two other launches, and two lifeboats, as well as two dinghies and a full equipment of life-saving rafts. While luxury pervades the vessel, it is of the restrained English kind, not the exotic variety found on certain foreign-owned yachts. The decorations and furniture are exquisite of their kind, the colour schemes being particularly pleasing. A gem in its way is the ladies' saloon, with one of the finest gramophones yet designed as one of its fittings. Possibly the room which appeals most to the male mind, for sheer comfort, is the library and smokeroom, the book-lined walls and deep chairs of which are very inviting. Glass cabinets in the corners contain an armoury of sporting guns and rifles on the one side, and fishing gear on the other. Lady Yule is the widow of a jute merchant who died at the age of seventy, leaving an estate reported to be £25.000,000.