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The UK national was found dead on board a £27million superyacht moored in Majorca.
14:09, Tue, Mar 3, 2026 Updated: 14:09, Tue, Mar 3, 2026
The UK national was found dead on board a £27million superyacht moored in Majorca (Image: Getty)
Police are investigating the death of a UK national on board a £27million superyacht moored at a popular British holiday destination. The woman's body was found on Sunday night (March 1) in one of the vessel’s cabins.
Paramedics rushed to the Majorcan 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 was expected to take place on Tuesday (March 3) as Civil Guard investigators seek to establish what happened. No obvious signs of violence were found on or near the body of the woman, believed to be aged 42, but a forensic expert and police officers were unable to determine her cause of death ahead of the post-mortem.
The woman was a crew member on the Cayman Islands-flagged vessel, Lind (Image: SOLARPIX.COM)
Police are not expected to publicly name her.
The dead 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 Cayman Islands-flagged 170-foot vessel, built in the Netherlands in 2010 with an exterior design by award-winning Tim Heywood, has a top speed of just over 15 knots (17mph) and can accommodate up to 11 guests as well as 13 crew members. Its extras include an open-air cinema, jacuzzi, gym and inflatable trampolines.
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The results of the autopsy are still pending (Image: Getty)
The superyacht’s current owner is reported to be German billionaire Peter Alexander Wacker, who owns around 10% of Wacker Chemie AG, a chemical company founded by his great-grandfather, Alexander Wacker, in 1914. He worked for BMW for a decade 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 $1billion (£751million).
The alarm was raised by the woman's colleagues, who went to check on her after she failed to respond to messages or calls.
A Civil Guard spokesman in Majorca confirmed on Tuesday: “The dead woman was a 29-year-old British national.”
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A well-placed source close to the investigation said: “Everything is pointing to her death being the result of natural causes. At this moment in time it is not being treated as a crime although the results of the autopsy are still pending.”
The woman’s colleagues have been interviewed by police as part of standard procedure.
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