Sea Cloud


Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the American breakfast food, C. W. Post and Sunkist frozen food fortunes, had a remarkable motorised sailing ship built for her as a wedding gift. The story takes you through the way that the ship was built to order at the Krupps shipyards in Germany, how it tied in with Marjoram's fortunes, and why it had the first frozen food storage installation in the world. Marjorie, on divorcing millionaire stock broker Button and marrying the man who became US Ambassador to Russia prior to World War ll, took the vessel to Leningrad, where Europe's Royalty and aristocracy was hosted on the vessel. The ship then went back to the United States and was later sold to the dictator Truillo of the Dominican Republic. The vessel was eventually fully restored and is now one of the most remarkable ways to cruise in a luxury ship under full sail. The article fully outlines the romance of the ship, and gives readers details of where they could travel and how to go about it.

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