1. Welcome to the World of SuperyachtsIf you go to Google and search for
Legendary Nabila Yacht you'll see the #1 or #2 slot is occupied by an article I wrote for a client in New Zealand [Pinnacle Marine].
The
Nabila was indeed legendary. When the yacht was moored in Puerto Banus in the early 1980s, Liz Taylor flew there by helicopter from Marbella. When she landed and went inside, she said it felt as though she'd stepped aboard the
Titanic. Apparently she never wanted to leave. The yacht was eventually seized by the Sultan of Brunei and sold to Donald Trump.
A Superyacht for the Getty FamilyAs sexy as the
Nabila was, a sexier, more interesting and more historic yacht exists. It's called
Talitha and is owned by the Getty family. There's no Wikipedia article for this.
Just about any list of top ten superyachts will include the
Talitha. For example:
1. The UK's
Daily Telegraphhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/5312 ... ml?image=42.
SuperYachtWorld, the magazine for superyacht owners
https://www.superyachtworld.com/yachts/ ... itha-111503. And this PDF has some nice photos of the plush interiors
https://yachtmasters.com/wp-content/upl ... ressed.pdfWriting a Featured ArticleWriting this up as an FA / TFA shouldn't be difficult, but would probably take about 10 days of fairly hard work. Getting the yacht's history sorted will take time. Google Books offers a preview for
World War II U.S. Navy Vessels in Private Hands, pages 103-104 of which contain a lot of useful information.
https://books.google.co.th/books?id=1zm ... &q&f=falseA. The yacht -- originally named
Reveler -- was commissioned by Russel A Alger Junior [Vice President of Packard Motor Car Company and son of the Governor of Michigan], and built in Germany by Friedrich Krupp.
B. Alger died in 1930 -- the same year the yacht was built. The yacht sat in England until it was bought a year later by Charles McCann, a lawyer and son-in-law of Frank W Wooloworth.
C. Frank W Woolworth was the founder of, well, go figure.
D. In 1935 McCann re-named the yacht
Chalena.
E. The
Chalena was then bought by Leon Mandel in 1940 and registered as
Carola. Mandel was General Manager (and later, Chairman of the Board) of Mandel Brothers department store in Chicago.
F. Next came WWII. The yacht was requisitioned by the Maritime Commission and transferred to the US Navy. It entered service on June 22 1942 as the
USS Beaumont PG-60 and operated as a weather station from Pearl Harbor until it was decommissioned in 1946.
Notice how the
Beaumont is red-linked in Wikipedia's list of patrol vessels of the US Navy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p ... tates_NavyG. The yacht's colorful history continued until 1993, when it was bought by the Getty family and named
Talitha. Soon after purchase it was completely restored and marketed as a charter vessel. It was around this time that the controversial second funnel was added at the request of yacht designer Jon Bannenberg.
Article StructureIn addition to the intro / summary [which I guess would consist of 2-3 paragraphs], the article could have sections for:
1. History
1.1. Early History
1.2. WWII
1.3. The Getty Family / Restoration
2. Specifications
3. Charter Operations
Anyway, this should be an easy FA to write from scratch. I've little doubt, of course, that some autistic shithead will read this and create a worthless, semi-literate stub, but that's not my problem.