It’s a winning combination : a legendary yacht like the M/Y Grace, originally commissioned before the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and the Galapagos Islands.
Quasar Expeditions’ vintage luxury yacht, M/Y Grace was originally commissioned during the Great Gatsby era, and built by Camper & Nicholson in Southampton, England.
Monica, as she was originally named, served as the personal yacht of high powered industrialists, was conscripted into the British Navy during WWII and took part in Dunkirk, captured a German torpedo E-boat and had an unconfirmed sinking of a U-boat to her credit.
Winston Churchill is purported to have cruised the Mediterranean aboard her after the war. In 1951 she was acquired by Aristotle Onassis, who renamed her Arion and gave the yacht as a wedding gift to Prince Rainier III of Monaco and his bride, Hollywood film legend Grace Kelly, who rechristened her Deo Juvante II in time to honeymoon aboard her.
Quasar has renamed the yacht Grace to recapture this magical time when she delivered the royal couple to Monaco and took them on their honeymoon, which is documented in a newsreel available on Youtube™ at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZxjNmR1SVo
The official launch of the yacht in the Galapagos this month coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Galapagos National Park. 2009 also marks the bicentennial of Charles Darwin, whose field work in the islands led to his writing of On the Origin of Species and his theory of evolution.
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