The "Savarona" in Ibiza. She was at one time the world's largest private yacht, built in Germany in 1931, reputedly as a christmas present from ER Cadwalader to his wife. In 1938, the Turkish government bought the yacht for ailing leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who spent only six weeks aboard before dying a few months later. It's owned by the Republic of Turkey...and you can charter her for $200,000 to 400,000 per week, which included the crew but not provisions. It looks a good plan!
Warship Wednesday Feb 29
USS TEXAS 1895, typical of an ambiguous class of warships in the early steam era during the transition from coastal ironclads to sea-going steel warships. This vessel has been alternately classed as an armored cruiser or a 2nd class battleship. In reality, it was an awkward, experimental vessel that performed neither role well.
