Lady Hutton
 The Lady Hutton (2011)
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The Lady Hutton (also Mälardrottningen , Swedish for The Queen of Lake Mälaren ) is a luxury yacht that sailed on the Fried in 1924 . Krupp Germania shipyard in Kiel was built. It is named after its temporary owner, the department store heiress Barbara Hutton , and has served as a restaurant and hotel ship in Stockholm since 1982 . Mona von Bismarck experienced a one-year honeymoon on this ship as Mona Williams in 1926/1927.
history
The Vanadis (II) was commissioned by Cornelius Kingsley Garrison (CKG) Billings (1861-1937) and delivered in March 1924. At that time it was the largest yacht in the world with a diesel engine and, as Vanadis, was nicknamed the goddess Freya from the Vanen family . The equipment included an on-board telephone system as well as mechanical horses and camels. The industrialist , considered to be eccentric, was chairman of the People's Gas Light and Coke Company of Chicago and, among other things, co-founder of Union Carbide . He had sold his steam yacht Vanadis (I) after an accident .
Since he was not satisfied with the stabilizers , Billings sold the yacht after a year to the Zoological Society of New York (today WCS) or their sponsor Harrison Charles Williams (1873-1953). Williams had the yacht , renamed Warrior , converted into a marine science laboratory in June 1925 . A year later he and Mona Bush (1953 Mona von Bismarck) went on a one-year honeymoon around the world with the Warrior .
In 1939, Barbara Hutton , divorced Countess Reventlow , came into possession of the yacht. The statement that she received the ship as a birthday present on her 18th birthday (November 14, 1930) is incomprehensible. A previous owner could be her father Franklyn Laws Hutton (1877–1940), who was a co-owner of one of the largest securities trading companies. Her aunt Marjorie Merriweather Post was the owner of the largest private sailing ship Sea Cloud (Hussar V) . Hutton, who was one of the richest women in the world, sold the Warrior for one pound to the British government after the outbreak of World War II , which in 1940 named her HMS Troubadour . From 1942 to 1947 she served as the Royal Navy accommodation ship .
In 1948 the yacht was sold to Haugesund in Norway and converted into a passenger ship for 350 people. As King , Cort Adeler , Brand VI and Marina , she drove, among other things, as a ferry between Larvik and Frederikshavn , Denmark, or between Stockholm and Turku , Finland during the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki . The Cort Adeler was launched as a hotel ship in 1953. In Stavanger she served as the training ship Gann from 1960 to 1978 . It came to Sweden in 1981 as the Vikingfjord .
There the ship was converted into a restaurant and hotel ship (Botel, Swedish Båtell ) Lady Hutton . As such, she is moored at Riddarholmen and only leaves her berth every three years for maintenance and overhaul. At the bow the yacht is named Mälardrottningen , the Queen of Lake Mälaren is also an epithet of the city of Stockholm. The ship was registered in 2010 with the owner Mälardrottningen Holding AB . <Skeppslistan 2010. P. 956.>
description
The ship was designed by Cox & Stevens in New York , who at the same time also designed the sailing yacht Hussar (IV) for Edward Francis Hutton and Marjorie Merriweather Post. The appearance of a classic yacht of the 1920s was repeatedly changed by renovations in the 1940s and 1960s. The clipper bow with bowsprit has remained , while the high chimney and masts have been significantly shortened.
As a botel, the Lady Hutton has 61 cabins and a suite for the ship owner. There is also the restaurant as well as the Captain's Bar , the open Hutton's Deck Lounge and a sauna .
Web links
- Web presence of the hotel ship
- digitaltmuseum.org: Photo of the training ship M / Y Gann (Norsk Maritimt Museum, NSM.2103-065)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wissen.de: First name dictionary: Vanadis . (accessed on February 22, 2020)
- ^ A b Hattie Beresford: CKG Billings. Man of the Gilded Age p. 84. In: Montecito Journal . Glossy Edition, Summer Fall 2011. (accessed February 22, 2020)
- ↑ Hattie Beresford: CKG Billings. Man of the Gilded Age p. 76. In: Montecito Journal . Glossy Edition, Summer Fall 2011. (accessed February 22, 2020)