Sail Number:
Type: Motorsailer
Ex; Ariane, Corisande, Atlantide
LOA: 122’ 5” / 37.30m – LOD: 115’6” / 35.20m – Beam:17’11” / 5.45m – LWL: 94’0” / 28.65m – Draft: 9’1” / 2.78m – Displacement: 187 / Gross 137 / Net 41 – Hull material: Steel – Power: 255 HP,Twin, 2015, Inboard, Diesel, Gardiner, 8L3B, – Economical Range: 3250 nautical miles – Generator(s): 2 x Northern Lights M445T 50kW – Tankage:12,000 litres fuel, 3,500 litres water – Speed: Max 12 knots / Cruise 10 knots (7 knots under sail) – Spars & Rigging: Spencer Rigging, Cowes, England. – Built by: Phillip and Sons of Dartmouth, UK. – Year Launched: 1930
Historical:
Designed by English Naval Architect Alfred Mylne (the designer of the original Royal Yacht Britannia) and launched in 1930 by Philip and Sons at Dartmouth, CALETA (currently Atlantide) has been in continuous commission to this day.
CALETA was built for Sir William Parker Burton, K.B.E., a distinguished yachtsman who made his fortune in the sugar and tea trade. He became partner and later friend of Sir Thomas Lipton with whom he shared the passion for yacht racing. During the 1930 America’s Cup races, as sailing master on Lipton’s Shamrock, he nearly beat the the American defender, Resolute three races to two.
Sir William Burton went on to sail and race on more than a thousand boats, and over 600 times on his own vessel. In British waters he won a total of 235 first place prizes and 140 lesser finishes. During the races, CALETA was tender to his William Fife designed 12-Meter Iyruna (built 1927), Alfred Mylne designed 12-Meter Marina (built 1934) and Jenetta, another Mylne design 12-Meter (built 1939). For a decade CALETA followed the racing fleet around the coast of England serving as Burton’s summer floating home and tender to his racing yachts.
In 1939 Caleta was requisitioned into the Royal Navy and in 1940 based at Sheerness as a Harbour Defense Vessel, she was armed with guns and patrolled the Thames Estuary. She joined the fleet of Little Ships to evacuate the Allied forces from Dunkirk harbour and the surrounding beaches. CALETA was an active participant, setting out for Dunkirk on May 31st in the company with the yachts Glala and Amulree. She operated under intense enemy shell-fire and dive bomber attacks over seven days during which time she assisted various vessels and embarked 35 troops from a disabled landing craft that she then took in tow. She is among the privileged few honored to fly St. George’s Cross
After the war she was bought by a Greek ship-owner who changed her name from Caleta to Ariane. Later she was renamed Corisande and based in Antibes. In the late 1980’s she was purchased by Count Nicolo delle Rose who gave her the present name of Atlantide.
In 1998 she was acquired by Thomas Perkins of San Francisco, and she underwent a complete rebuild. Her hull was reconstructed at the Manoel Island Shipyard of Malta and the new superstructure and interior was provided by Camper & Nicholson. Overall external and interior design was undertaken by Ken Freivokh Design. At the time it was rumoured to be the world’s most expensive refit per metre, estimated to be worth 18-20 million dollars.
Perkins had brought her back to her original designed purpose as a motor sailer and tender to a racing yacht.
From 1999 through 2005, Atlantide had the enviable roll as support vessel to her owner’s 1915 classic Herreshoff racing schooner Mariette…just when you thought it doesn’t get any better than this, in 2006, Tom Perkins launched the remarkable 289’ Maltese Falcon. Atlantide and “The Falcon” were show stoppers in every port the pair dropped anchor. On her own, Atlantide also cruised to distant points on the globe including the Caribbean, Canada’s East and West coasts and Norway’s high arctic.
In 2020 Jim and Kristy Hinze Clark purchased Atlantide and was shipped from Newport, USA, to the Netherlands, arriving at Royal Huisman’s headquarters in Vollenhove the first week of 2021.
Following the successful 2020-refit by Huisfit of Jim and Kristy Clark’s famous J-Class yacht Hanuman, and with three newbuild orders already completed by Royal Huisman in recent decades (Hyperion in 1998, Athena in 2004, and Hanuman in 2009), Dr. Jim Clark decided the same craftsmen and women are best suited to take on this new project – rebuilding Atlantide at the quality level Royal Huisman is known for.
Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):
- Owner/Guardian: (1930) – Sir William Parker Burton, K.B.E.
- Disposition: (1939-1940s) – Transferred to the Royal Navy (Operation Dynamo)
- Owner/Guardian: (1948) – Pandelis B Pandelis Greece, Cannes. Renamed Ariane.
- Owner/Guardian: Maldwin Drummond, Antibes. Renamed Corisande
- Owner/Guardian: (1980s late) – Count Nicolo delle Rose, renamed Atlantide
- Owner/Guardian: (1998) – Thomas Perkins of San Francisco
- Owner/Guardian: (2013) – Richard and Leslie Fairbanks, East Blue Hill, Maine
- Owner/Guardian: (2020 – current) Dr. Jim and Kristy Hinze Clark
Resources
- Freedom Marine
- Classic Studio
- Photo credit: Sir William Parker Burton, KBE (1864-1942), Joint-Master of the Essex and Suffolk Foxhounds; President of the Yacht-Racing Association (America Scoop)
- Royal Huisman
- Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
- Classic Studio
The Corisande, formally Caleta, on the French Riviera, in the 1962 film, Tender is the Night.