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Talitha is a 1103 GT motor yacht owned since 2008 by Mark Getty, co-founder of Getty Images. She was built in 1929–1930 by Krupp Germaniawerft at Kiel as Reveler for Russell Alger, chairman of the Packard Motor Car Company, and her subsequent owners include Robert Stigwood and Paul Getty. In 1942 she was purchased by the United States Navy and served as patrol gunboat USS Beaumont (PG-60) until 1946.
The Australian-British music entrepreneur and film producer Robert Stigwood purchased the yacht in August 1983. Later, the yacht was again laid up, in Lisbon, after developing mechanical problems, and was sold in 1993 to John Paul Getty Jr., who renamed her Talitha G in memory of his second wife. Since John Paul Getty Jr.'s death in 2008 the yacht, with the name modified to Talitha, has been owned by his son, Mark Getty.