[BITList] Fwd: [IrishSeaShips] NEWS: SY NAHLIN

[Michael Feltham]

This is a lovely reengined Steam Yacht from byegone days.  She spent a long time in Liverpool in an out of the way berth.  I think they were removing asbestos from her before she went off to Germany to be reengined and fitted out.

Mike
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From: "Groups" <groups at irishseashipping.com>
Date: 19 July 2010 19:52:08 GMT+01:00
To: <IrishSeaShips at yahoogroups.com>, <scotships at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [IrishSeaShips] NEWS: SY NAHLIN
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Here is a You tube clip

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k53sgn1tp7M&feature=channel

 

 

 

From: IrishSeaShips at yahoogroups.com [mailto:IrishSeaShips at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Groups
Sent: 19 July 2010 19:50
To: IrishSeaShips at yahoogroups.com; scotships at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IrishSeaShips] NEWS: SY NAHLIN

 

 

Many will remember the historic steam yacht NAHLIN which spent some time in Sandon Dock on Merseyside being partially restored before being shipped off to Germany for a complete rebuild at Blohm & Voss. At the time it was rumoured that it had been bought be wealthy German.

 

Apparently this is not the case and she is actually owned by James Dyson and has paid a visit to Dartmouth recently.

 

Here is the story

One of the world's finest privately owned yachts - understood to be owned by vacuum cleaner entrepreneur James Dyson - was a visitor to the River Dart last weekend

This is Nahlin, recently re-built by Blohm + Voss in Germany and pictured last week end on the River Dart in Devon. The 300ft long yacht was originally built for Lady Annie Henrietta Yule in 1930 by the John Brown shipyard and was later owned by the Romanian Royal Family. She was also chartered in the 1930s by King Edward VIII and used by him and Mrs Wallis Simpson.

Nahlin was 'discovered' some years ago lying on the River Danube by yachting historian Dr. William Collier, who is the owner of the G.L. Watson naval architect firm responsible for Nahlin's original design. The company has done much of the cataloguing and re-design work necessary to turn Nahlin into a yacht with a modern inventory.

Yacht broker Nicholas Edmiston arranged to have the vessel, which was originally steam-powered, shipped first to Falmouth, then to Liverpool and finally to Germany where the re-fit work has been underway for some years.

It has been reported that Nahlin is now owned by James Dyson of vacuum cleaner fame.

If you have bought one of those clever vacuum cleaners you now know some of your cash has been used to preserve a rather nice piece of British maritime heritage!

 

 

 

 

 

 



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