Steam yacht

CANGARDA may be unique: an obviously gorgeous, fully functioning Edwardian era private pleasure steam yacht of significant size and undoubted provenance. Her rebuild and restoration led by Bob McNeil and executed by Jeffrey Rutherford, completed in 2009, was painstaking in its combination of authenticity with practicality and capability. Apart from all those superlatives, CANGARDA is an easily and economically driven steam yacht, powered by her original steam engine and its associated…

Steam-Powered SS Delphine Yacht

Vertical cylinders, chromed bores. Steam anchor winch from steam yacht ‘Morven’ Came from Glasgow Museums at the same time as other loan objects A nice example of an anchor winch from a small steam vessel, with vertical cylinders to reduce the deck space it occupied. That on the ‘Carola’ is similar. Part of a group of marine auxiliaries also see www.flickr.com/photos/scottishmaritimemuseum/galleries/72...

Download Image of Nydia - Public domain image of a steam ship or boat. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Public domain photograph of a steamship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Dated: 01.01.1892. Topics: nydia steam yacht, steam yachts, dry plate negatives, nydia, ship exterior, steamship, 19th century, ship, library of congress

The U.S. Navy's website has quite a story on this sleek yacht: Corsair, a 1600-ton (displacement) steam yacht, was built in 1899 at Hoboken, New Jersey, for New York financier J.P. Morgan, who once commented (in effect, and presumably based on close personal experience with the subject) that if somebody had to ask what it cost to keep a steam yacht, they could not afford it. Morgan was clearly not a member of that class. In any case, the Navy could afford it, at least in time of war, and in…

Steam Yacht LADY TORFRIDA 1888

Scott Mcbee on Instagram: “Royal Russian steam yacht “Faroslawna”,1899 Built by Herr F. Schichau @ Elbing,Prussia. Owned by Count A.D. Scheremetzew. 12 x 29 gouache…”

MYSTERY OF THE STEAMER PORTLAND “IS ONE OF THE SECRETS WELL KEPT BY THE SEA” “THREE WRECKS OFF GAYHEAD” “Life Savers Bring Half Dead Sailors Ashore While the Ships Are Ground to Pieces” Associated Press Special Wire PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Dec 2, 1898 — Another day has passed and the mystery of the steamer Portland … Read more "On this Day (Dec 2) – Continued, the Portland Gale"