British girl is discovered lifeless on £27million superyacht in Palma

A British woman has been found dead on board a £27 million super yacht in Palma, Mallorca.

The woman’s body was found in one of the vessel’s cabins on Sunday evening.

The alarm was raised by colleagues of the woman who went to check on her after she failed to respond to messages or answer calls. 

Paramedics rushed to the port of Palma where it was moored but there was nothing they could do to save her life and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

An autopsy is expected to take place today as Civil Guard investigators seek to establish what happened.

No obvious signs of violence were found on or near the body of the woman, but a forensic expert and police officers were unable to determine her cause of death ahead of the post-mortem.

Police are not expected to publicly name her.

The woman was a crew member believed to help out with maintenance and the vessel she worked on has been identified as Lind, a custom-built motor yacht said to cost nearly £300,000 a week to charter in high season.

The 170ft vessel, built in the Netherlands with an exterior design by award-winning Tim Heywood, has a top speed of just over 15 knots and can accommodate up to ten guests as well as 13 crew members.

Its extras include an open-air cinema, jacuzzi, gym and inflatable trampolines.

The superyacht’s current owner is reported to be German billionaire Peter Alexander Wacker, who owns around 10% of chemical company Wacker Chemie AG which was founded by his great-grandfather Alexander Wacker in 1914.

He worked for BMW for ten years before joining Wacker Chemie in 1993 as a member of the board, when it was still a privately owned company.

As of April 2024 his net worth was estimated by Forbes to be $1 billion.

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