The 1,740-ton steam yacht Nahma.
Photograph courtesy of G L Watson.
THIS summer many wonderful yachts have been seen passing through the Sound of Mull and at anchor around our coastline. I don’t know which has been the most attractive but Eos, a three-masted Bermuda-rigged schooner and one of the largest private sailing yachts in the world, was definitely in a class of its own. I doubt, however, if she could match the Nahma, which spent several days in Oban Bay in the summer of 1900.
Termed at the time as the largest privately-owned steam yacht that had visited Oban, the Nahma belonged to Louise Goelet, widow of Robert Goelet (1841-1889), an American heir and businessman and a member of the prestigious New York Yacht Club.