United States

Welding Shipyards

Think you've got what it takes to identify our Mystery Yacht? This year, SYT's revered in-house yacht historian and archivist, Malcolm Wood will be testing your yacht-spotting knowledge to the limit in a series featuring historic yachts selected from his archives that were rarely mentioned or photographed in their day. Here, we give you the solution for the June <a href="https://www.superyachttimes.com/yacht-news/mystery-yacht-june" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">Mystery Yacht.</a><img src="/uploads/store/photo/81815/image/large-32314787444f0a340412817a0d038eea.jpeg" data-gid="gid://syiq/Photo/81815">The answer to the <a href="https://www.superyachttimes.com/yacht-news/mystery-yacht-june" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">June Mystery Yacht</a> is Danginn, built by the <a data-gid="gid://syiq/Company/2406" href="#managed-by-system" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Welding Shipyards (Company)">C. Welding</a> shipyard in Norfolk VA, USA in 1950. The yacht was built for Daniel K. Ludwig, the American shipping magnate and is seen in the photo as Henriette II&nbsp;when owned by Margarita Latsis of the Latsis shipping group.&nbsp;Although he was one of the wealthiest men of his era, the media-shy Ludwig would appear as No. 1 on the Forbes “Richest Americans” list in 1982. His wealth came from founding the world’s largest salt company in Mexico and by developing the construction of supertankers at his yard in Japan. Danginn had a length overall of 58.33-metres and was designed by John H. Wells. The yacht still exists today, in relatively unchanged style and is now called <a data-gid="gid://syiq/Yacht/3858" href="#managed-by-system" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Hasabi II58.34m (191'5&quot;)Welding Shipyards1950">Hasabi II.&nbsp;</a>Congratulations to those who found the correct answer and commiserations to the others. All your answers are much appreciated.

Mystery Yacht June solution 

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Mystery Yacht - June 2019: Solution 

<img alt="" src="https://syt-store-production.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/photo/152539/image/large-4106f8b05fece1dfbb2bd0145c09a232.jpg" data-gid="gid://syiq/Photo/152539">Superyacht Hasabi II seen in Piraeus<a href="#managed-by-application" data-legacy="true" data-gid="gid://syiq/Yacht/3858">Hasabi II</a>, seen here in Marina Zea last summer,was originally build by Welding Shipyards in 1950 as Danginn to a design of John H Wells. After that she cruised under the name Argo, and following her sale to a new well known Greek family, she became known as Henriette. Around 2006, the 58.34 metre superyacht was completely refitted and was relaunched as Chrysalis, before yet another name change, to Hasabi II. By Maarten Janssen

Superyacht Hasabi II at Marina Zea, Piraeus

<img alt="" src="https://syt-store-production.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/photo/134853/image/large-7e3b7b131ff15e091efe5d554c42f977.jpg" data-gid="gid://syiq/Photo/134853">Superyacht Hasabi II seen off Mykonos <a href="#managed-by-application" data-legacy="true" data-gid="gid://syiq/Yacht/3858">Hasabi II</a> seen off Mykonos in the Summer of 2009. For many years the superyacht was known as Henriette and owned by a well-known Greek yachting family. Around 2006 the 58.34 metre superyacht was completely refitted and entered the charter market as Chrysalis. <a href="#managed-by-application" data-legacy="true" data-gid="gid://syiq/Yacht/3858">Hasabi II</a> was originally build by Welding Shipyards in 1950 as Danginn to a design of John H Wells. By Merijn de Waard