Rhodora II
1929
(Albatros AL-120)
- Type: Yacht
- Displacement: 709 tons
- Dimensions: 220 x 28 ft.
- Machinery: Sulzer diesels, twin screw, BHP = knots
- Crew: 12
- Builder: Camper & Nicholson Ltd, Southampton, England, 1929
- Service: In 1925 Camper & Nicholsons built the 120-ton yacht Rhodora for Lionel de Rothschild. In 1929 he replaced it with the 709-ton Rhodora II. It was equipped with an operating theatre and had space to store a Rolls-Royce. Requisitioned by the Admiralty in September 1939 and converted into an anti-submarine patrol vessel. Sunk in a collision with merchant Ngatira in the Bristol Channel 7 Sep 1940.
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