LUXURY YACHT

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 35, 11 February 1935, Page 10

LUXURY YACHT

CRUISE ROUND WORLD

ROSAURA IN PORT

VISIT TO SOUNDS

The private motor-yacht Rosaura, tripping leisurely round the world ia search of summer, quietly and unexpectedly arrived at Wellington last evening. This morning her long, graceful black hull and buff-coloured singles funnel could be descried through ■ the heavy fog which lay over the harbour She did not berth, but lay out in the stream and she is expected to leave at 4 p.m. for West Coast Sounds in continuation of her 'pleasure voyaging. A heavy blanket of fog and light drizzle of. rain must have brought memories of London to. Jier travellers on their arrival here; they were given small opportunity of : seeing^ Wellington, for from the ship the waterfront was barely, visible this morning.. .. . . .The luxurious Diesel-engined yacht is owned by Lord Moyne. who; with several distinguished guests, left Britain in December on a long voyage, to the Southern Hemisphere, via the Suez Canal.

«. £d^ Moyne> a former member of the British Cabinet, has as his guests on^the vessel Mrs. Winston Churchill, wife of the British statesman; Lady Broughton, wife of Sir Delves Broughton, Bart.; and Mr. Terence Phillip. Captain and Mrs. E. O. Kellett were with the; yacht,until she reached Sydney last Wednesday, where they, left her to 30m the Monterey for America. The call at Sydney was made solely to permit the, catpain and Mrs. iCellett to tranship to the Monterey. .: Since leaving England in December the Rosaura has.cruised through the Mediterranean, across the ' Indian. ! Ocean, and through the East Indies. [Sydney was the only Australian port to be visited. None of the visitors had | previously been to the Commonwealth. Last evening Lord Moyne. and his fellow-travellers were the guests of his Excellency the Governor-General at dinner at Government House. Today his Excellency and Lady Bledisloe visited the yacht and were entertained at luncheon. . : : . \

When the Rosaura leaves!here this afternoon-she will probably proceed to Milford Sound and several days may be spent in cruising to various places on the West Coast. The Marlbbrougb. Sounds may also be entered, after which'the yacht may return to Wellington. Arrangements are niore: or less indefinite. , ...

The Rosaura is an exceptionally graceful little craft, of 1552 tons gross— a. little smaller in gross measurement than the Tamahine. She was acquired by Lord Moyne after his former yacht, the Roussalka, sank in August, 1933, through striking the Strathlin Rock, off the coast of Galway. Although the yacht sank in seven'minutes'all'those on board escaped in the boats. A small pet monkey named Gandhi also.escaped from the wreck, and he has since been the mascot of the Rosaura.

The Rosaura was, built in 1905, arid she was in service as the cross-Channel steamer Dieppe for nearly' thirty years. When purchased by Lord Moyne.last year she was refitted and had.her turbine engines replaced by Dieser en« gines. The interior of the ship is furnished in modernV style. An extensive library, a phonograph, radio, a. special sports deck, and a swimming bath,were among the appointments installed^ for the comfort and entertainment' ot passengers. . .'.■'■:"'

Lord Moyne has held many important military and political posts. Before his elevation to. the Peerage, ia 1932 he was Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Edward Guiness. v '