John I. Thornycroft & Co. Ltd. Thornycroft 60 ft Motor Yacht 1922/2025 1922 TAHILLA

Thornycroft 60 ft Motor Yacht 1922/2025

TAHILLA entered present ownership in 2015, when the painstaking commitment began of restoring this perfectly proportioned 60-footer, full of romance, history (a Dunkirk Little Ship) and undoubted ability, to her present condition, interspersed whenever possible with summer cruising. Launched as SKYLARK from Thornycrofts’ Hampton Launch Works on the River Thames, perhaps as a 20th Century interpretation of a clan chieftain’s galley – certainly to perform as a laird’s pleasure yacht on the remote north west coast of Scotland – by 1940 she found herself embroiled in the trauma of war at Dunkirk, where her stout teak, oak and greenheart construction withstood air attacks. In a long and happy life TAHILLA has also been a race yacht mothership and a pioneer of the Mediterranean charter trade. Any past owner would immediately recognize TAHILLA’s exterior and hopefully be charmed by her tastefully updated, luxurious accommodation.