PALATIAL YACHT

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1931, Page 7

PALATIAL YACHT

MILLIONAIRES WIDOW’S VISIT TO N. Z. A FLOATING PALACE Much interest- lias been aroused I).'. the news itliat Lady Yule and lie daughter have left Cannes lor New Zealand in their pilatiil twin-screv steam yacht Nahlin. Th ( e Nahlin, which is one of the world’s most luxurious yachts, was launched from tin yard of John Brown and Comp ny Glasgow, in April, 19110, and is o 1600 tons. Rigged as a pole-masted schooner, she has a clipper bow and long ccui'j er-stern, an unusual feastenm turbines of 4000 h.p. The overture in tl;ese days, and is filled with all length is 300 feet and learn 36ft., with a depth to her main deck of 21 feet. i Excootianallly llerge vjltter as(l nj! fuel tanks give the Nahlin a wid cruising radius. Six boats are carried, and the launch, * 30ft, vessel, i practically a motor cruiser, for it ha two cabins, with electric light, an a 30 h.p. Thornyero.% eng'ne. The interior decorations are in beepin' l with everything in the magnificent ves cel, which is a floating nalsjce, and are the result of the vast experience o r -hr Clmrlov Allom in this particular line. There are a dozen bathrooms ancl a p'vmncisiv.in on board, flncl a crew of 51 is carried. Lady Tide is the widow of Pi David Yule. Bt. who died in 1928 and who was described at the tune of ’is death as “the wealthiest man in India ami probably tie British Empire’’. lie was herd r f a great- Calcutta firm. Messrs. Tula, Catta. and Company. He was 69 years of am of. the time of his death, fie s ent much of his time in India, but the family also had a home at St. Albans. Hertfordshire, ’ England, and a villa- at Cannes, on the Riviera.