Yule, Annie Henrietta, Lady, 1874-1950.
The collection consists of letters, diaries, newspapers cuttings and photographs relating to the luxury steam yacht NAHLIN (1930), while it was in the ownership of Lady Yule. There are also papers relating to Edward VIII on holiday in the Mediterranean on board the yacht in 1936.
Administrative / biographical background
Lady Yule was the wife of Sir David Yule, a wealthy Calcutta jute merchant, who died in 1928. She commissioned the luxury steam yacht NAHLIN to be built by the John Brown & Co. Ltd. shipyard at Clydebank in 1929. In the following year Lady Yule and her daughter Gladys embarked on a world cruise in the NAHLIN and they stayed in New Zealand, Australia and Miami between 1931 and 1934.
Administrative / biographical background
Lady Yule was the wife of Sir David Yule, a wealthy Calcutta jute merchant, who died in 1928. She commissioned the luxury steam yacht NAHLIN to be built by the John Brown & Co. Ltd. shipyard at Clydebank in 1929. In the following year Lady Yule and her daughter Gladys embarked on a world cruise in the NAHLIN and they stayed in New Zealand, Australia and Miami between 1931 and 1934.
Record Details
| Item reference: | YUL; GB 0064 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Personal collections |
| Level: | COLLECTION |
| Date made: | 1929-1937 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Photographs taken in New Zealand, circa 1932. (Manuscript) (YUL/3)
- Official logbook from the Mediterranean cruise of the steam yacht NAHLIN, 1936. (Manuscript) (YUL/6)
- Diary kept while on holiday in America, 1937. (Manuscript) (YUL/7)
- Visitors book from the steam yacht NAHLIN, 1930-1936. (Manuscript) (YUL/8)
- Nautical atlas from the steam yacht NAHLIN, circa 1930-1936. (Manuscript) (YUL/9)
- Photographs of the steam yacht NAHLIN, circa 1930. (Manuscript) (YUL/10)
- Album of photographs of the steam yacht NAHLIN, 1929-1934. (Manuscript) (YUL/11)
- Crossing the line certificate, 1932. (Manuscript) (YUL/12)
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