Savarona

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Savarona
The Savarona
The Savarona
Ship data
flag United StatesUnited States United States Turkey
TurkeyTurkey 
other ship names
  • Savarona III
  • Gunes Dil
Ship type Motor yacht
Callsign TCSA
takeover 1931
Whereabouts In motion
Ship dimensions and crew
length
136 m ( Lüa )
124.5 m ( Lpp )
width 16.15 m
Draft Max. 6.25 m
measurement 4,646 GT
 
crew 44 to 54
Machine system
machine Originally geared turbines (steam),
today 2 × Caterpillar 3608 DITA diesel engines
Machine
performance 		7,000 PS (5,148 kW)
Top
speed 		18 kn (33 km / h)
propeller 2
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers 34
Pax cabins 17th

In 1931, the Savarona was 136 meters long and was one of the largest steam yachts ever built for a private individual. The ship was launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg .

history

The Savarona was built in 1931 for the American heiress Emily Roebling Cadwallader, a granddaughter of John August Roebling , the builder of the Brooklyn Bridge at a cost of $ 4 million. The ship was the largest yacht of its kind at the time of delivery. It was named after a black swan (native to the Indian Ocean ) and was the second of three successive yachts named Savarona . The first owner used the ship on worldwide voyages for several years, but the Savarona never called at US ports where the owner would have had to pay import duties.

In 1934, the Savarona figured in the German science fiction film Gold by Karl Hartl, with Hans Albers , Brigitte Helm and Lien Deyers .

In 1938 the yacht was sold to the Turkish government, which gave it to the ailing head of state Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as a gift. He spent six weeks on the ship before he died. During the years of World War II and thereafter until 1951, the yacht was laid up in Kanlıca Bay on the Bosporus , after which it was converted into the training ship Güneş Dil . The ship was damaged by a fire in the Turkish Naval Academy in 1979 and was then laid up again for around ten years.

In 1989, the Turkish businessman Kahraman Sadıkoğlu acquired Güneş Dil and had it extensively renovated at the Tuzla Shipyards near Istanbul. During the restoration, the steam turbines were replaced with new diesel engines. Today the Savarona is used as a charter yacht in the Mediterranean (identification: IMO 5314810).

draft

The ship was designed by William Francis Gibbs of the traditional New York shipbuilding firm Gibbs & Cox in collaboration with Diana Yacht Design. The current interior of the ship comes from Donald Starkey Design. One of the most remarkable furnishing details is a stairwell measuring almost 86 meters that connects the decks with one another.

Web links

Commons : Savarona  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Savarona in Hamburg , on www.abendblatt.de , accessed on September 2, 2015