Nahlin (yacht)
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| History | |
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| Name: | Nahlin |
| Builder: | John Brown & Co |
| Yard number: | 533 |
| Launched: | 1930 |
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| Status: | Currently in service |
| Naval Architect: | G.L. Watson & Co. |
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| Class and type: | Luxury yacht |
| Tonnage: | 1,574 metric tons (deadweight tonnage) |
| Displacement: | 2,017 metric tons (maximum) |
| Length: | 91.4 m (300 ft) |
| Beam: | 10.98 m (36.0 ft) |
| Draft: | 4.42 m (14.5 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 4 x 2200 hp |
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Nahlin is a luxury yacht and one of the last of three large steam yachts constructed in the UK. She was built for Lady Annie Henrietta Yule, heiress of Sir David Yule, and was launched in 1930. She is currently owned by British industrial entrepreneur Sir James Dyson, who purchased her from Sir Anthony Bamford, Chairman of JCB. The name Nahlin is taken from the Native American word meaning "fleet of foot" and the yacht has a figurehead depicting a Native American wearing a feathered headdress beneath the bowsprit.
Lady Yule ordered three private yachts in 1929 from John Brown & Company, Clydebank, with Nahlin being the first built. In 1934 Nahlin was classified as one of the biggest private yachts ever built in the U.K. Numbered 533 at the yard, she was the vessel constructed by Brown's immediately before the RMS Queen Mary.
In 1936 Nahlin was chartered by King Edward VIII - rather than using the Royal yacht Victoria & Albert III, to "enable the avoidance of formality accorded to Royalty" - and used by him and Mrs. Wallis Simpson during a cruise in the Adriatic Sea. As Lady Yule was a strict teetotaler, the king took over the library on the shade deck where he replaced the books with bottles. The presence of Simpson on board the yacht first "alerted the world's media to the impending abdication crisis." Informal photographs of Edward and Simpson on board together during the cruise were not published in Britain but became front-page news in the United States. During the cruise, Nahlin was escorted by HMS Glowworm, a Royal Navy destroyer.
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