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Unknown yacht anchored at Dzaoudzi (Mayotte), on 1995.
I wonder why she was in this area, so far of 'jet set' places !
Thanks and congratulations for Phil English who has identified her as WELSH LIBERTY.
Yvon
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AMAZONE was built by Thornycroft, Southampton in 1936 for Captain-Commander Léon Andrien H M J G Hemeleers-Shenley, Assistant Military Attaché at the Belgian Embassy, allegedly at his wife Una's behest and with her money. By 1939 the yacht was laid up at Thornycroft with ownership in dispute between the couple. He fired her favourite yacht-master, at which she re-appointed him, but he was able to resist his wife's legal claim for posession of the yacht by successfully claiming diplomatic immunity.
It seems that the Antwerp-registered yacht remained in the shipyard until 1940 when she was hired by the Admiralty.
That's a much more juicy story than the nonsense about her belonging to Churchill.
http://evegdphotoart.overblog.com/2016/08/il-est-toujours-la-le-yacht-amazone.html
(the photo of Churchill in naval uniform was taken at Safi, Morocco in 1959 on the launch of Aristotle Onassis's yacht CHRISTINA)
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https://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachting-boating-world/luxury-yacht-linked-to-churchill-and-wwii-battle-on-sale-for-e2m-16540
https://www.yachting-pages.com/superyacht_news/winston-churchills-yacht-listed-for-sale.html
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