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Talitha broadside on open water, showing her white hull, two buff funnels and varnished masts
Talitha broadside on open water. Date, location and photographer unconfirmed; the image records her present configuration only.

Yacht profile

TALITHA, 1930

From pre-war American yacht to USS Beaumont and back again.

Built
1930
Original name
Reveler
Builder
Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel
Designer
Cox & Stevens
Current LOA
82.6 m / 271 ft

Talitha began life in 1930 as REVELER, a Cox & Stevens motor yacht built by Krupp Germaniawerft at Kiel. Since then she has changed name repeatedly, served the United States Navy as patrol gunboat USS BEAUMONT, lost and later regained major elements of her original profile, and undergone a transformation that increased her overall length from about 68.9 metres to 82.6 metres. Her significance lies in that continuity through radical physical change.

Record

Yacht at a glance

Current name
TALITHASources: SYT Overview
Documented
Original name
REVELERSources: DANFS
Documented
Builder
Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel, GermanySources: DANFS, SYT Overview
Documented
Yard number
513Sources: Compilation, Miramar
Secondary source
Designer / naval architect
Cox & Stevens, New YorkSources: DANFS
Documented
Laid down
12 April 1929 (reported)From the user-supplied compilation; pending a direct check against yard or register records.Sources: Compilation
Secondary source
Completed
30 September 1930 (reported)From the user-supplied compilation; pending a direct check against yard or register records.Sources: Compilation
Secondary source
Built
1930Sources: DANFS, SYT Overview
Documented
As-built LOA
68.88 m / 226 ftSources: Compilation
Secondary source
Current LOA
82.6 m / 271 ftSources: SYT Overview
Reported by specialist source
Waterline length
62.8 m / 206 ftEra of this figure is not established; it is not safe to assume it applies to the current hull.Sources: Compilation
Secondary source
Beam
10.4 m / approx. 34 ft 1 inSources: SYT Overview
Reported by specialist source
Current max draught
3.91 m in current market dataSources: SYT Overview
Conflict / unresolved
Historical reported draught
3.86 m / 12 ft 8 inSources: Compilation
Conflict / unresolved
Current tonnage
1,103 GTSources: SYT Overview
Reported by specialist source
As-built tonnage (reading A)
1,108 GRTSources: Compilation
Conflict / unresolved
As-built tonnage (reading B)
1,045 GRTSources: Compilation
Conflict / unresolved
Hull
SteelSources: SYT Overview
Reported by specialist source
Superstructure
SteelSources: SYT Overview
Reported by specialist source
Current type
Motor yachtSources: SYT Overview
Documented
Current class
Lloyd’s Register in current market dataSources: SYT Overview
Reported by specialist source
IMO
1004625Sources: SYT Overview, Miramar
Documented
MMSI
310051000Sources: SYT Overview
Reported by specialist source
Call sign
ZCAN7Sources: SYT Overview
Reported by specialist source
Current flag
Bermuda in current market dataSources: SYT Overview
Reported by specialist source
Current reported guests
12Sources: SYT Overview, Compilation
Reported by specialist source
Current reported guest cabins
6 in the supplied current specification; 5 staterooms in recent specialist pressSources: Compilation, SYT News
Conflict / unresolved
Current crew
17Sources: SYT Overview
Reported by specialist source
Current engines
2 x Caterpillar 3516TA diesel, 1,051 kW / 1,409 hp eachSources: SYT Overview
Reported by specialist source
Speed
13 kn cruise / 14.6 kn maximumSources: SYT Overview
Reported by specialist source
Fuel / water capacity
121,000 L / 130,000 LSources: SYT Overview
Reported by specialist source
Wartime identity
USS BEAUMONT (PG-60), patrol gunboat, United States NavySources: DANFS
Documented
Wartime complement
110Sources: DANFS
Documented

Current figures describe the yacht after major reconstruction and are not evidence for her as-built condition. As-built, wartime and current readings are held apart here rather than combined into one specification.

Provenance confidence

  • Documented
  • Reported by specialist source
  • Secondary source
  • Conflict / unresolved
  • Requires verification

Photographic record

Talitha in her present configuration

These photographs document the yacht as she appears today, after the reconstruction and restoration work described below. They are evidence of her current configuration only, not of her 1930 arrangement.

Exterior — 8 photographs

Decks — 6 photographs

Interior — 5 photographs

Dates, locations, photographers and reproduction rights unconfirmed. Clearance required before publication.

1929–1930

Origins — REVELER

REVELER was designed by the New York naval architects Cox & Stevens and built at Kiel by Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft — an American yacht of the late interwar period built in a German warship yard.

She was ordered by Russell Alexander Alger Jr., a senior figure at the Packard Motor Car Company. Public sources describe his role differently: the user-supplied compilation calls him chairman, while DANFS calls him vice president. Historical Yachts therefore describes him as a senior Packard executive and industrialist until a corporate or biographical source settles the point.

Yard number 513 and the reported dates of 12 April 1929 (laid down) and 30 September 1930 (completed) are carried from a secondary compilation and are not yet checked against Germaniawerft build records.

Sources: DANFS, Compilation
Documented

Design office, builder and original name are documented; yard number and exact laying-down and completion dates currently rest on a secondary compilation.

Identity

Name and identity chronology

  1. REVELER1930–1931

    Original name at completion, for Russell Alexander Alger Jr.

    Sources: DANFS
    Documented
  2. CHALENA1931–1939

    Renamed following acquisition by Charles E. F. McCann; the name is said to combine Charles and Helena.

    Sources: Compilation, USMM 1932
    Secondary source
  3. CAROLA1939–1942

    Renamed after the wife of Leon Mandel following his purchase.

    Sources: DANFS
    Documented
  4. USS BEAUMONT (PG-60)1942–1947

    Renamed BEAUMONT on 27 January 1942 and classified as a patrol gunboat; the identity persisted through decommissioning, striking and Maritime Commission custody.

    Sources: DANFS
    Documented
  5. ELPETALLate 1940s–1983

    Name carried through the return to private ownership and the Embiricos period. The start of this period is disputed between 1947 and 1949.

    Sources: DANFS, Compilation
    Conflict / unresolved
  6. JEZEBEL1983–1993

    Renamed under the ownership of Robert Stigwood.

    Sources: DANFS
    Documented
  7. TALITHA GFrom the Getty acquisition

    Adopted on acquisition by the Getty family. The acquisition year is disputed between 1988 and 1993, and the end of this name period is not established.

    Sources: DANFS, SYT News, Compilation
    Conflict / unresolved
  8. TALITHAModern

    The yacht’s established modern identity. The exact date of the change from TALITHA G is unresolved and requires registry or official yacht documentation.

    Sources: SYT Overview
    Requires verification

Names are listed as a continuous identity chain. Date ranges are given only as far as the sources support them; where a transition date is disputed or unlocated, that is stated rather than smoothed over.

1931–1939

CHALENA and the McCann years

Alger is reported to have died before the yacht was completed, after which she was reportedly laid up at Camper & Nicholson, Gosport. In 1931 Charles E. F. McCann acquired her, reportedly for around US$375,000, and renamed her CHALENA — a name said to combine Charles and Helena.

United States vessel-register material of the period associates her with a New York home port and the New York Yacht Club. That register material is worth consulting directly rather than through summaries.

The purchase price and the naming anecdote are secondary claims. They remain reported until the underlying register or period press is examined.

Secondary source
Sources: Compilation, USMM 1932, USMM 1933

1939

CAROLA — the Mandel period

In 1939 the yacht was sold to Leon Mandel and renamed CAROLA after his wife. DANFS supports the transition of owner and name.

The user-supplied compilation adds cruising to Guatemala and the Galápagos in this period. That itinerary is recorded here as secondary until logbooks or contemporary reports are located.

DocumentedDANFS supports the owner and name change; the reported cruising itinerary does not carry the same weight.
Sources: DANFS, Compilation

1942–1947

The United States Navy acquired the yacht on 23 January 1942 and renamed her BEAUMONT on 27 January 1942, classifying her as patrol gunboat PG-60. Conversion was carried out by the Gibbs Gas Engine Co. at Jacksonville, Florida, and she was commissioned on 22 June 1942 with a complement of 110.

She transited the Caribbean and the Panama Canal to Pearl Harbor and was assigned to the Hawaiian Sea Frontier, serving on weather-station duty in support of the Pacific Fleet in the waters between Oahu and Midway. She remained on that duty until the end of hostilities, departing Pearl Harbor on 5 November 1945.

She was decommissioned at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 19 February 1946, struck from the Naval Register on 28 March 1946, and delivered to the Maritime Commission / War Shipping Administration on 20 February 1947.

Decommissioning, striking from the register, Maritime Commission custody and eventual private sale are four separate legal and operational states. This profile deliberately keeps them apart rather than reducing them to a single date of “return to private hands”.

DocumentedThis is the best-documented period of the yacht’s life, recorded in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
Sources: DANFS

“How much of the 1930 REVELER survives inside today’s TALITHA?”

The wartime conversion is the first point at which large-scale alteration is certain in principle. Its precise material scope is not, and that gap is the central research question of this record.

Material change

What the Navy conversion did

The user-supplied compilation reports that the conversion gutted the yacht’s interior to accommodate a naval complement of 110 and that the original clipper bow was removed for service.

Both are major provenance points. Neither is confirmed here by a yard record, Navy conversion drawing or photographic comparison, and each is recorded as reported rather than documented until such material is located.

Sources: DANFS, Compilation
Reported by specialist source

Naval conversion itself is documented; the specific alterations below are not, and are among the most consequential unverified claims in the record.

Postwar

Return to private yacht — ELPETAL

The date of her return to private hands is disputed. The user-supplied compilation states that Norman B. Woolworth purchased the former BEAUMONT in February 1947; DANFS states that the ship was acquired in 1949 by Elpetal Corp. Both readings are preserved in the conflicts table.

Under the name ELPETAL she was reportedly reconditioned by Bath Iron Works in Maine. Postwar dimensions given in the compilation are 214 ft 3 in / 65.30 m in length, 1,043 GRT and 423 NRT.

The derivation of ELPETAL from the names Eliot Fox, Peter Walton and Talbot Malcolm is an anecdote carried by secondary material and is not treated as established.

Conflict / unresolved
Sources: DANFS, Compilation, USMM 1948

1957–1970s

The Embiricos period

DANFS supports the acquisition of ELPETAL in 1957 by the Greek shipowner Maris Embiricos. The compilation adds Concordia Navigation Co. of Monrovia and Liberian registration, drawn from register material; this is recorded as secondary pending a direct registry check.

A later lay-up at Petali and progressive deterioration through the 1970s are widely repeated but rest on secondary accounts. No yard, owner or period source has been examined here.

Reported by specialist source
Sources: DANFS, Compilation

1983

Robert Stigwood and JEZEBEL

Robert Stigwood acquired the yacht in 1983 and renamed her JEZEBEL; DANFS supports the acquisition and the name.

The compilation reports a refit at Malta lasting about eight months, during which the clipper bow was restored. Restoring a historic bow form is not the same as reinstating original 1930 material: a reconstructed form may follow, approximate or depart from the Cox & Stevens drawings, and only a plan comparison can establish which.

  • Reported Malta refit of approximately eight months
  • Reported restoration of the clipper-bow form removed in naval service
  • Original drawings not yet compared against the restored geometry
Reported by specialist source
Sources: DANFS, Compilation

Late 1980s / early 1990s

The Getty acquisition

The yacht passed to the Getty family and was renamed TALITHA G. The date is unresolved: the user-supplied compilation and DANFS give 1993, while SuperYacht Times articles repeatedly state 1988.

The late-1980s / early-1990s acquisition chronology therefore remains open in this record, and both readings appear in the conflicts table below.

Sources: DANFS, SYT News, Compilation
Conflict / unresolved

Current public sources disagree materially on the year. Historical Yachts does not pick the more convenient date.

1990s

Lengthening and reconstruction

The defining physical change of the modern era is the transformation associated with Devonport at Plymouth and the designer Jon Bannenberg. The compilation describes a three-year refit between 1991 and 1994, after which the yacht measured 1,103 GT and 82.6 m. SuperYacht Times instead describes complete refits in 1993 and in 1999, with design work by Jon Bannenberg.

These accounts are not merged here. What is common to both is that the current overall length of 82.6 m is roughly 13.7 m greater than the reported as-built length of 68.88 m, which implies major structural extension.

“Completely refitted” is specialist-press language, not a technical conclusion. The extension geometry, the era in which it was added and the steel-renewal schedule all require yard and class documentation.

  • Devonport / Bannenberg-era transformation in the early 1990s
  • Current LOA 82.6 m against a reported as-built 68.88 m
  • Further major refit work around 1999 reported by specialist press
  • Structural scope and steel-renewal records not available in public sources
Conflict / unresolved
Sources: Compilation, SYT News, Boat Int.

2003 onward

Modern ownership and the return to TALITHA

John Paul Getty Jr. died in 2003. Some circulating summaries imply a later date; that implication is not carried here.

The exact point at which ownership or control passed within the Getty family, and the exact date on which TALITHA G became TALITHA, are not established by any source reviewed. Current public reporting commonly associates the yacht with Mark Getty, but beneficial ownership is treated as a public-source claim rather than a documented fact in the absence of current registry evidence.

Requires verification
Sources: DANFS, SYT News

Material history

What survives from 1930?

Continuity of identity and continuity of material are different things. No percentage of surviving 1930 fabric is claimed anywhere in this record; the table below states what is known, what is altered and what would need yard, class or survey documentation to establish.

Hull plating

Requires survey or yard documentation

The proportion of 1930 plating still in the vessel is unknown. Wartime conversion, postwar reconditioning and at least one major reconstruction each imply steel renewal that is not documented in public sources.

Frames and bulkheads

Unknown from public sources

No yard or class record has been reviewed that would establish which frames or bulkheads are original.

Original hull geometry

Known altered

Current overall length of 82.6 m is roughly 13.7 m greater than the reported as-built 68.88 m. The hull form of the present vessel is not that of REVELER as delivered.

Sources: SYT Overview, Compilation

Bow geometry

Reported renewed

The clipper bow was reportedly removed for naval service and restored during the 1980s. Whether the restored geometry follows the original Cox & Stevens drawings requires a plan comparison.

Sources: Compilation

Stern and hull extension

Known altered

The current length indicates a major structural extension. The era, geometry and material of that extension require yard documentation.

Superstructure

Known altered

Altered through the naval conversion, postwar private reconditioning and later reconstruction. Current market data describes a steel superstructure.

Sources: SYT Overview

Deck structure and deckhouses

Known altered

Repeatedly altered across naval service and successive refits. No original deck arrangement drawing has been compared.

Machinery

Known altered

The original Krupp machinery has been replaced. Current propulsion is two Caterpillar 3516TA diesels of 1,051 kW each — modern equipment with no relation to the 1930 installation.

Sources: SYT Overview

Interior layout

Known altered

The interior was reportedly gutted for a naval complement of 110. The present interior is a later reconstruction, not a surviving 1930 arrangement.

Sources: Compilation

Art Deco interior finishes

Unknown from public sources

Current specialist sources describe the interior in Art Deco terms. Component-level dating and originality of individual fittings require documentation and are not asserted here.

Sources: SYT Overview, Boat Int.

Funnels

Known altered

The present twin-funnel appearance should not be assumed to reproduce the as-built arrangement; the user-supplied compilation states the yacht initially had a single funnel.

Sources: Compilation

Source discipline

Conflicts in the public record

Conflicting statements in public sources
FieldReading AReading BNote
As-built tonnage1,108 GRT1,045 GRTBoth figures appear within the same user-supplied compilation — one in the infobox, one in the body text. A period register entry is required to determine which, if either, is the original measurement.Sources: Compilation
Russell Alger’s role at PackardChairman (user-supplied compilation)Vice president (DANFS)A corporate or biographical source is needed. Narrative here uses the neutral description “senior Packard executive”.Sources: DANFS, Compilation
Return to private ownership as ELPETALPurchased by Norman B. Woolworth in February 1947Acquired in 1949 by Elpetal Corp. (DANFS)The two dates may describe different legal steps — a Maritime Commission disposal and a later corporate transfer — rather than a straightforward contradiction. The disposal file would clarify it.Sources: DANFS, Compilation
Getty acquisition year1993 (DANFS and user-supplied compilation)1988 (SuperYacht Times articles)A five-year divergence in a well-reported ownership event. Registry or sale documentation is required; neither reading is adopted.Sources: DANFS, SYT News, Compilation
TALITHA G to TALITHA rename and transfer to Mark GettyPublic summaries place the change in the 2000sNo source reviewed gives a documented datePublic summaries are inconsistent and several also misstate John Paul Getty Jr.’s death year, which is 2003. The rename date is left open.Sources: DANFS, SYT News
Refit chronologyThree-year refit 1991–1994 at Devonport (compilation)Complete refits in 1993 and 1999 (SuperYacht Times)These may describe one long programme and a later separate project, or two distinct yard periods reported differently. Yard records would separate them.Sources: Compilation, SYT News
Current guest accommodation12 guests in 6 cabins (supplied current specification)12 guests in five staterooms (recent SuperYacht Times news item)Counting conventions differ between databases and press copy, and layouts change between refits. Neither figure is adopted as definitive.Sources: Compilation, SYT News
Draught3.91 m in current market data3.86 m historical figure / 12 ft 8 inMost likely an era and measurement-convention difference rather than a genuine dispute, but both are preserved until confirmed.Sources: SYT Overview, Compilation
Length presentation82.6 m271 ftThe same measurement in two unit systems. Display is standardised as 82.6 m / 271 ft throughout this record.Sources: SYT Overview

None of these conflicts is resolved here. Each is a research task with an identified document that would settle it; see the primary-source follow-up list.

Chronology

Timeline

  1. 12 April 1929Reported laying down at Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel, as yard number 513.Sources: CompilationSecondary source
  2. 30 September 1930REVELER completedCompleted to a Cox & Stevens design for Russell Alexander Alger Jr.Sources: Compilation, DANFSSecondary source
  3. 1931Acquired by Charles E. F. McCann and renamed CHALENA; New York home port reported in register material.Sources: Compilation, USMM 1932Secondary source
  4. 1939Sold to Leon Mandel and renamed CAROLA.Sources: DANFSDocumented
  5. 23 January 1942Acquired by the United States Navy.Sources: DANFSDocumented
  6. 27 January 1942Renamed BEAUMONT and classified as patrol gunboat PG-60.Sources: DANFSDocumented
  7. 22 June 1942Commissioned following conversion by Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, Florida; complement 110.Sources: DANFSDocumented
  8. 2 September 1942Arrives at Pearl Harbor via the Caribbean and Panama; assigned to the Hawaiian Sea Frontier for weather-station service.Sources: DANFSDocumented
  9. 5 November 1945Departs Pearl Harbor after weather duty through the end of hostilities.Sources: DANFSDocumented
  10. 19 February 1946Decommissioned at Mare Island Naval Shipyard.Sources: DANFSDocumented
  11. 28 March 1946Struck from the Naval Register.Sources: DANFSDocumented
  12. 20 February 1947Delivered to the Maritime Commission / War Shipping Administration.Sources: DANFSDocumented
  13. 1947 or 1949Return to private ownership as ELPETALConflicting readings: purchase by Norman B. Woolworth in February 1947, or acquisition by Elpetal Corp. in 1949. Reported reconditioning by Bath Iron Works, Maine.Sources: DANFS, CompilationConflict / unresolved
  14. 1957Acquired by Maris Embiricos; Concordia Navigation Co. and Liberian registration reported in register-derived material.Sources: DANFS, CompilationDocumented
  15. 1970sReported lay-up at Petali and progressive deterioration.Sources: CompilationSecondary source
  16. 1983Acquired by Robert Stigwood and renamed JEZEBEL.Sources: DANFSDocumented
  17. 1980sReported Malta refit of about eight months, including restoration of the clipper-bow form.Sources: CompilationSecondary source
  18. 1988 or 1993Getty acquisition and rename to TALITHA GSuperYacht Times gives 1988; DANFS and the user-supplied compilation give 1993. Unresolved.Sources: DANFS, SYT News, CompilationConflict / unresolved
  19. Early 1990sMajor Devonport / Jon Bannenberg transformation, associated with the increase in overall length to 82.6 m.Sources: Compilation, SYT News, Boat Int.Reported by specialist source
  20. 1999Further major refit reported by specialist press.Sources: SYT NewsReported by specialist source
  21. 2003John Paul Getty Jr. dies.Sources: DANFSDocumented
  22. 2000sTransition from TALITHA G to TALITHA; the exact date is not established in any source reviewed.Requires verification
  23. July 2024Completion of a refit at MB92 Barcelona reported by specialist press in October 2024.Sources: SYT NewsReported by specialist source
  24. May 2025Reported arrival at Falmouth; evidence of active operation, not of ownership.Sources: SYT NewsReported by specialist source
  25. March 2026Reported sighting at Gibraltar.Sources: SYT NewsReported by specialist source
  26. 31 August 2026Historical Yachts public-source review of this record.Documented

Current status

Where is Talitha today?

At the time of the public-source review on 31 August 2026, SuperYacht Times listed TALITHA as not for sale. Recent specialist reporting placed her in active operation, including Falmouth in 2025 and Gibraltar in March 2026.

Port sightings record movement, not ownership. No owner is inferred here from a berth, a flag or a photograph, and market status is a dated observation rather than a permanent fact.

Public sources observed: 31 August 2026.

Reported by specialist sourceSources: SYT Overview, SYT News

Significance

Why Talitha matters

Pre-war design

A major Cox & Stevens motor yacht built at Krupp Germaniawerft during the late interwar period, when American design and German warship-yard construction met in a single hull.

Military conversion

One of the rare classic yachts whose wartime identity and operations — as U.S. Navy patrol gunboat BEAUMONT (PG-60) — are documented in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

Reconstruction and identity

The current yacht is far longer than REVELER as built, with a bow form that was removed and later restored, making her a strong case study in continuity of identity against continuity of original material.

References

Source register

  • Institutional project historyDANFS · Primary

    Beaumont (PG-60) — Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Shipshttps://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/beaumont-i.htmlInstitutional naval history. Used for US Navy acquisition, commissioning, movements, weather duty, decommissioning, disposal and the broad owner and name chronology.

  • Market databaseSYT Overview · Market

    Talitha — yacht overviewhttps://www.superyachttimes.com/yachts/talitha/overviewCurrent dimensions, tonnage, engines, speeds, class, materials and not-for-sale status. Market data, not a historical record.

  • Contemporary pressSYT News · Secondary

    Talitha — news and eventshttps://www.superyachttimes.com/yachts/talitha/news-eventsSpecialist maritime press. Used for the 1993 and 1999 refit claims, the reported 2024 MB92 refit and recent sightings.

  • Secondary local maritime historyCompilation · Secondary

    User-supplied Talitha research compilationA secondary compilation aggregating references to the Miramar Ship Index, NavSource, historic US vessel registers, an archived My Talitha history, DANFS and Boat International. Underlying sources must be followed directly before any claim is upgraded.

  • Registry / heritage registerMiramar · Secondary

    REVELER — IMO 1004625https://www.miramarshipindex.nz/ship/1004625

  • Secondary local maritime historyNavSource · Secondary

    USS Beaumont (PG-60)http://www.navsource.net/archives/12/09060.htm

  • Registry / heritage registerUSMM 1932 · Primary

    Seagoing Vessels of the United States, 1932http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AMH/USMM/Annual_List/1932.pdf

  • Registry / heritage registerUSMM 1933 · Primary

    Seagoing Vessels of the United States, 1933http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AMH/USMM/Annual_List/1933.pdf

  • Registry / heritage registerUSMM 1948 · Primary

    Merchant Vessels of the United States, 1948http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AMH/USMM/Annual_List/1948.pdf

  • Contemporary pressBoat Int. · Secondary

    Inside the rebuild of the 80m iconic classic superyacht Talithahttps://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/editorial-features/iconic-yachts-talitha

  • Secondary local maritime historyMy Talitha · Secondary

    Archived My Talitha history pagehttps://web.archive.org/web/20220124231419/http://www.my-talitha.co.uk/history.html

Primary-source follow-up required

  • Cox & Stevens original design drawings and specifications
  • Krupp Germaniawerft yard 513 build records
  • Original 1929/1930 German yard delivery documentation
  • US yacht and vessel registers for REVELER and CHALENA
  • Sale and estate records following Russell Alger’s death
  • Gibbs Gas Engine Co. Navy conversion drawings and work records
  • Navy plans showing wartime bow and interior alteration
  • War Shipping Administration / Maritime Commission disposal file
  • Bath Iron Works ELPETAL reconditioning records
  • Liberian registry and Concordia Navigation records
  • Malta refit records from 1983–1984
  • Original Cox & Stevens plans against the restored clipper-bow geometry
  • Getty purchase and registry documents resolving 1988 against 1993
  • Devonport / DML records for the early-1990s lengthening and reconstruction
  • Jon Bannenberg project drawings
  • 1999 refit records
  • Lloyd’s Register class history and current class records
  • MB92 2024 project documentation
  • Current registry and title record

Research status

Preliminary public-source provenance review

This profile is a working historical record, not a completed provenance certification. Naval, yard, registry and class archives would materially refine the chronology and settle several of the conflicts recorded above.

Public-source review date: 31 August 2026. This is the date the public record was reviewed, not the date of a vessel survey.

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