FIRST VISIT

FOR the first time in history the Sea Cloud has paid Almeria a visit.

The emblematic 92 ‐ year ‐ old sail ‐ing ship is owned by the shipping company Sea Cloud Cruises, whose cabins, lounges and deck have wit ‐nessed the experiences of celebri ‐ties, the US Navy and, for just over 40 years, tourists who opt for exclu‐sivity.

The New York tycoon Edward Hut‐ton had the splendid four ‐ masted pleasure yacht, the largest in the world and named Hussar, built for his wife, Marjorie Merriweather.

The launching of the yacht took place in April 1931.

In 1935 the couple separated and Marjorie remarried Joseph Davies, who became the American ambas ‐sador to Moscow in 1937, and the Sea Cloud became a floating diplo ‐matic palace to which celebrities

ALMERIA’S mayor, Maria del Mar Vazquez, has highlighted the “efficient” use of water in Almeria in the face of the current drought situation.

Vazquez stressed that “Almeria cannot afford to waste a single drop of water, whether through water transfers, desalina‐tion or regeneration.”

She thanked the Junta de Andalucia for its re ‐ such as Queen Elizabeth of Belgium were invited.

In the late 1970s, a group of Ger ‐man businessmen took the Sea Cloud to Hamburg; in February 1979, it was towed to Kiel, to the shipyard where it was built half a century ear‐lier. After nine months of work, the Sea Cloud set sail on her first cruise under a new flag.

In 2011 she was refurbished, look‐ing like a great jewel on the sea.