476 foot Yacht Grille

A quite little one horse town located on the Delaware River is an unusual resting place for one of the famous private yachts in history, but it is here that the 476 foot yacht Grille was dismantled and sent to the scrap heap in 1951, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer article on Thursday, March 27, 1997 The Grille was the private yacht of Adolph Hitler of Germany. By the time the "Grille" passed under the Ben Franklin Bridge from the New York Navy yards to Doan Salvage in Florence, it was floating junk. An interesting part of the proud History of the Area. A number of people in the South Jersey area claim to have teak from the boat, and a Service Station in Florence claims to have the head (Toilet to landlubbers) from the yacht.

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