The 91-metre steamship
Nahlin has just celebrated her 91st year afloat and was seen this week taking refuge in Falmouth, Cornwall. Launched on the 28th April 1930, the steamship, previously named
Libertatea, was designed by the Scotish firm
G. L. Watson & Co and built in Clyde, Scotland, by John Brown & Co. The last time
Nahlin was seen in Falmouth, she was mounted aboard a cargo ship en route to the beginnings of her restoration work in 1999.
Photo: Giovanni RomeroThe extraordinary motor yacht was part of a fifteen year campaign to rescue the steamship from dilapidation in Romania, in which her designers G. L. Watson & Co, were the major instigator. Nicholas Edmiston and a yachtsman named William Collier discovered the vessel in dire straits, and after 15 years of negotiation, returned the vessel to the United Kingdom in 1999.