A FAMOUS YACHT.
SENT TO SCRAP HEAP. The Yankton, formerly the private yacht of King Edward VII, when he was Prince of Wales, but which has recently been playing the less distinguished role of rum runner, was towed to the shipbreakers' yards at Boston recently. The yacht was built at Leith, in Scot!and in 1893, and christened Penelope. The Prince of Wales owned it for a while, and later it was acquired by Sarah Bernhardt iwho renamed it Cleopatra. Next an -'•American millionaire bought the ship, [which became the Sapphire. Then the vessel entered Government service, and after a long and honourable career in the United States Navy as tho gunboat Yankton, seeing service in the Spanish-American War and tho Great War, as ,a, submarine patrol off Gibraltar, it W as discharged in 1921. Two years later the Yankton was seized by agents of the Government with * cargo of rum in her holds. Lately she flu rested, a disused, bulk, in a shipyard,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20602, 28 June 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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163A FAMOUS YACHT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20602, 28 June 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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