The Imperial Sailing Palace

The only one yacht that participated in the military operations and shipwrecked was the Black Sea wheeled imperial “Livadia”. Its construction began in 1869.

The yacht looked rather unusual: the yacht itself (the higher body) represented the boat cut at the waterline 79,25m long and 33,53m wide placed on the elleptic ponton (lower body) 71,63 m long and 46,63 m wide. In the middle section it was not higher than 5,49m, the bottom was flat, with three keels. It was often called “the bull on the halibut”.

The construction of the lower yacht frame was unique. It provided unprecedented for that time level of subdivision.

“Livadia” in Neapol, May, 1881

Dining room

In the sitting room

Smoking place

Private room

One of the bedrooms

Boudoir

Private room

In the sitting room

Part of the dining room

Blockship “Opyt” (“Experience”) (former “Livadia”). In the foreground – mine cruiser “Kazarsky”.

In April 1883 the yacht turned into a ship “Opyt”, it was intended for transportation of troops and military equipment. But it sooner was used as barracks or a storehouse. It had been standing in Sevastopol till 1926 when it was written off once and for all.

Souce ; Englishrussia.com