YACHT NAHLIN

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 32, 8 February 1932, Page 11

YACHT NAHLIN

ARRIVAL AT WELLING-TON

MOVEMENTS UNCERTAIN

Lady Yule's steam yacht, the Nahlin, arrived unexpectedly at Wellington yesterday morning. As she lay at anchor off Oriental Bay in tho brilliant sunshino slio made a pretty picture, with her clipper bow 'aud graceful lines. The yacht has cream-coloured sides, and a yellow funnel. In the aftornoon she moved to a position, off the Pipitea [Wharf, but this morning sho returned to her original position. Although it has been announced that tho ship would go on the' Patent Slip at Wellington, it is stated that slie will probably not do so, but as yet nothing definite has been decided. It is also uncertain* when- the Nahlin will leave Wellington for the South Island.

1 Lady Yule and Miss G. Yule are on board the yacht.

The Nahlin, a' vessel of tho Eoyal Thames Yacht Club, is stated to bo valued at & 250,000. It was launched from a Scottish yard in April, 1930. Of 1600 tons, it,has an overall length of 300 ft, a beam of 36ffc, and a depth to the main deck of 21ft. It has a speed of 17.5 knots, and is equipped withhuge water and oil-fuel tanks for long voyages.

The Nahlin carries >.i 40-knot speedboat with a 220-h.p. Seripps 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 tho 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 tile library and smoke-room, the book-lined walls and deep chairs of which are very inviting. Glass cabinets in the corners contain 'useful armoury of sporting guns and rifles on the one side, and fishing gear on the other.'

The .number of stewards carried on the vessel has been variously published at from ten to twenty. In actual fact there are not more than two to attend on Lady Yulo and her daughter in the dining-room; also a chief steward, second steward, and pantryman. For their personal service Lady and Miss Yule have one maid. The chief is of English birth, and has served under the commander on previous occasions. THE SHIP'S COMPLEMENT. Tho whole personnel is 4S, made up as follows:—Tho commander, three deck officers, six engineer officers) four stewards in the saloon, two stewards for the officers' mess room, one for the sailors and one for the firemen's mess, one pantryman, one bedroom steward, four cooks for the whole ship, four quartermasters, nine sailors, one wireless operator, ono boatswain, one carpenter, seven firemen, one ladies' maid. Captain T. A. Eainey, commander of the Nahlin, combines the unusual qualities of aviator and sailor. For a period during the Great War he was attached, as a member of the Royal Naval Air Service, to the famous flying squadron of the daring aviator, Commander Sampson, upon whose head the Ger-I mans set a price. On more than one occasion Captain Eainey's aeroplane was shot down by enemy guns.