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This is the web site for a multi-volume book series, THE GOLDEN CENTURY, 1830-1930. From a design standpoint, this was a remarkable era, notable for its beautiful steam and motor yachts, grand architecture, opulent private railcars, intimate overnight liners, and luxurious hotels. These creations were built with a level of design and skill that remains unsurpassed, as do the materials used. Relive this era through the fascinating men and women who shaped it; learn about their lives and charming foibles, visit their mansions, and step aboard their yachts.

The first four volumes invite you aboard a century of yachting. For a brief moment in history, the world witnessed an outpouring of extraordinary creations: grand steam and motor yachts rivaling (and often surpassing) magnificent mansions in both their luxury and the quality of their workmanship. They were graced with unimaginably lavish interiors and required fortunes to build and maintain. Often endowed with dramatic clipper bows, sweeping counter sterns, raked masts, and imposing funnels, they were radically different from their modern counterparts. Steam and motor yachts were commissioned for a variety of reasons. Sometimes, they were playthings of the very rich: millionaires who competed with one another to have the fastest, longest, and most up-to-date vessel. Other millionaires used their yachts to explore a world much more mysterious and unfamiliar than is imaginable today. And some yachts were used as private commuters – the Lear jets of their day. People of "moderate" means owned smaller vessels, although these yachts were still quite luxurious.

The history of sailing yachts has been recounted often, but steam and motor yachts, although far more popular in their day, have been largely neglected. The first private steam yacht was commissioned in 1830; this historic occasion marked the first time that a person, not the wind, controlled a water-borne schedule. Steam yachts gained enormous popularity beginning in the 1880s, an era that witnessed financier Jay Gould's dashing ATALANTA, Sir Thomas Lipton's famed ERIN, and the remarkable LYSISTRATA, owned by the notorious James Gordon Bennett and liberally decorated with – of all things – owls. Stunning black and white images, most never previously published, reveal these yachts in their entire palatial splendor. Author Ross MacTaggart recreates a remarkable era, the men and women who commissioned these grand vessels, and the designers and builders who created them.

, published by W. W. Norton in April 2001, details the evolution of steam and motor yachts.  Be a witness as these vessels metamorphose from clipper-ship-styled craft to elegant creations never before seen upon the seas.  In his extensively researched text (which is occasionally irreverent and often opinionated), MacTaggart takes you on a journey through a century of naval architecture, ably assisted by 263 images and plans.  For the first time, see the remarkable interiors of HOHENZOLLERN, the imperial yacht built for German emperor Wilhelm II, as well as the lavish saloons gracing the black-hulled ATALANTA.  Admire the extraordinary cabins aboard Bennett's LYSISTRATA, as well as hundreds of other yachts in stunning images.  In Section Two, MacTaggart invites you to join him on a personal odyssey through the many beautiful yachts he has known, loved...and sometimes lost.

, published by W. W. Norton in November 2004, this companion volume takes a close look at the men and women who commissioned magnificent yachts.  Learn about their spouses, children, mansions, gardens, and lives – all enhanced with extraordinary images, most never previously published.  Alfred I. and Jessie Ball du Pont dominate this volume with their homes and five yachts, including two unique vessels named NENEMOOSHA.  Another impressive character is Thomas W. Lawson; visit his expansive estate, Dreamwold, and enjoy cruises aboard his many yachts, such as DREAMER. Other millionaires include notables John D. Spreckels and Emily Cadwalader (who commissioned a vessel destined for world renown as a U. S. presidential yacht, and then checkmated this achievement by ordering the largest private yacht ever built, the mighty SAVARONA), and lesser-known, but still fascinating people like Eugene Tompkins (the "Napoleon of theater managers"), George Fabyan, and Harry Darlington, among others. Learn about the individuals who shaped this era, like Thomas Fleming Day, photographer Nathaniel Stebbins, and the many builders and designers of splendid yachts.



, brings to life the most celebrated steam yachts from a golden century. Revisit James Gordon Bennett, and learn about his palatial POLYNIA and NAMOUNA.  And, in never before published images, tour the deck of Bennett's dazzling LYSISTRATA (also depicted in Volume I).  
Join MacTaggart as he sheds light on the secretive Goelet family and their impressive yachts NAHMA and MAYFLOWER (the presidential yacht for many decades, and possibly extant). 
THE GREAT STEAM YACHTS would not be complete without the Gould and Vanderbilt yachts. The latter family is well known today, while the former has been eclipsed by time.  This is unfortunate, as the Goulds, beginning with patriarch Jay Gould and his impressive ATALANTA (featured in Volume I), were preeminent yachting enthusiasts.  You are invited back in time to revisit Gould's children and their many fine steam yachts, such as Howard Gould's mighty 272-foot NIAGARA, George Gould's impressive 303-foot ATALANTA (II), Anna Gould's 245-foot auxiliary bark VALHALLA, and Frank Gould's diminutive (by comparison) 185-foot HELENITA.  But the Vanderbilts surpassed the Goulds in their propensity for grand yachts.  Many of the mansions built by this extended family are revered landmarks today, but their many yachts have been long scrapped and largely forgotten.  Through hundreds of pristine, never published images, you are invited to step aboard these splendid creations once again. Included in this volume are some of the most famous royal steam yachts launched, including the extraordinary LIVADIA – the strangest looking yacht ever built!  



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Charles & Dianne Colman commissioned this boat in 2007. The 24 month project  culminated in summer 2008, when 'Nenemoosha' hit the waters of Geneva Lake, Wisconsin.

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Nenemoosha is powered with a Chrysler "Straight 8" which provides reliable and adequate power, while having the look and sound reminiscent of that by-gone era. The Colmans use the boat primarily for sunset cruises and to entertain guests on favourable days.

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The Thames has its own traditions when it comes to boats and boating, and many of the craft taking part in the historic section of the Queen’s Pageant will reflect these. The following boats are some prime examples of traditional Thames craft:  

Bibi  21ft 8in  1965

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This 47 year old Italian runabout is now looking her best again after a recent refurbishment by the expert Peter Freebody. She still has her original 125hp Chris Craft V8 engine though.

Owner Tim Wright is delighted to be in the pageant; his uncle was part of the royal escort for King George Vl, Queen Elizabeth and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret’s 1947 Tour of Africa.

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Islay is an exquisitely restored launch from the elegant yachting days of the 1920s. She was built for a man who sailed an open keelboat in Bembridge harbour, but she had found her way to Italy by the time her current owner found her in 2006. She was restored to win several prizes at the 2008 Thames Traditional Boat Rally.

Her Morris Commodore engine is installed under her foredeck and her homely cabin has seats to get in out of the rain.

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Legend has it that she towed a water skier in evening dress on a silver tray past the Houses of Parliament in the early 1950s… but no-one seems able to produce a photo. A famous boat though – once owned by actress Diana Dors, now restored and a familiar sight on the upper Thames.

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This boat earns her keep, some of the time, as a cookery school. Yes you can ship aboard for a day, with three others and spend the day being coached by a top chef as the beautiful scenery of the upper River Thames slips by.  The elegant Bates Starcraft is the last word in waterborne luxury and she has discrete modern touches like a DVD player while retaining that 1960s away-from-it-all charm.

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Nenemoosha was built in Holland in steel with wood decks and superstructure. Early retirement (at the age of 46) gave her owner the need for a project and she was it, she has been restored to fabulous condition and is a regular at classic events as well as the swan upping ceremonies on the Thames.

She has two berths in her forward cabin and a double can be made in her saloon.

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“Purposeful elegance,” is how her owner Hal Sisk describes her look.

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Alfred I. duPont's dying wish

Alfred i. dupont's 40-page will is at the center of a dispute of where his vast fortune should be spent.

  • Alfred I. duPont's 1932 will says his money should be used to care for disabled children and the elderly in Delaware.
  • The charitable trust now is housed in Jacksonville, Florida.
  • A major reason that Nemours has such a strong presence in Florida today is because of Alfred’s brother-in-law, Ed Ball.

Alfred I. duPont's great-granddaughter, Susanna Dent, is shown with a painting of her father Alfred duPont Dent from 1939. The bottom painting is her grandmother Victorine duPont Dent. Susanna Dent now resides in Baltimore.

Susanna Dent and her cat live in a nondescript neighborhood of older rental row homes, where people stake their claim to parking with chairs.

A Baltimore real estate investor who attended Tower Hill High School, Dent is an heir to the duPont family fortune.

But Alfred I. duPont bucked family tradition when, in 1932, he left the bulk of his $56 million estate to charity.

“My great-grandfather was a renegade,” said the down-to-earth Dent, who drops the duPont name for fear of being judged. “He believed that he made his own money and his children should make their own money.

“He wanted to leave his money for the poor people of Delaware,” she continued. “He had a vision to give back to them and provide for them.”

Now, the Delaware Attorney General's Office is demanding that duPont's charitable foundation funnel more of its annual disbursements into Delaware, as duPont instructed in his will.

State attorneys argue in court filings that Nemours Foundation leaders  have distorted duPont's will to the point that much of his bequest has been diverted away from the First State’s most vulnerable citizens to bankroll operations in Florida and elsewhere.

Nemours and duPont trust senior executives vehemently deny that they have shortchanged Delaware.

To understand duPont's motivations for leaving his fortune to the less fortunate in Delaware, The News Journal examined hundreds of pages of court and probate documents, pored over duPont family histories and interviewed trustees of the Alfred I. duPont Testamentary Trust and Nemours leaders.

DuPont was recognized for helping the poor, and one of his most memorable statements is carved into the Nemours building's tan facade in Jacksonville, Florida: “It is the duty of everyone to do what is within his power to alleviate human suffering.”

The sweeping pronouncement was codified in duPont's will . Yet when the maverick manufacturer was deciding how to divide up his vast fortune to care for disabled children and the elderly, Florida didn’t make the cut.

Delaware did.

“First consideration, in each instance, being given to beneficiaries who are residents of Delaware,” the Victorian poet and pugilist wrote in his will.

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Little did duPont know that with that one line, buried in a 40-page document, he would lock two states in a decades-long legal fight that began in the 1970s.

What is clear is that lawyers and directors for duPont’s trust and the foundation, which operates A.I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, have relied on a broad interpretation of “first consideration” to justify service expansions outside of Delaware. While Delaware is entitled to receive “priority” in health care services from Nemours, the estate's attorneys argue, the trustees aren’t “obligated to solve all of Delaware’s health care problems before funds can be spent elsewhere.”

Apart from operating A.I. duPont Hospital in Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando, the foundation owns more than 50 clinics in Delaware, Florida, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Hugh Durden, longtime trust chairman, said the founder could not have anticipated the health care evolution, which has forced independent hospitals to expand to remain viable.

“We can’t know what he thought,” said the retired president of Wachovia Bank, which has merged with Wells Fargo.

But Joseph Frazier Wall, in his acclaimed 1990 biography, “Alfred I. duPont: The Man and his Family,” wrote that a will is a “last reach for immortality.”

“For in providing for family, friends and good works, it seeks to inure that some substance of the departed person’s life will endure and be cherished.”

In the end, duPont, who once opined sadly that “everybody talks about money,” will have the most significant piece of his legacy decided by the courts.

Nemours: The battle over a duPont legacy

Sometimes on his way to work, Nemours Mansion Director John Rumm stands on the lawn separating duPont’s classical French chateau from his world-renowned hospital for children, and imagines the compassionate industrialist yearning to care for disabled children as if he were Jay Gatsby in “The Great Gatsby” –– fixated on that unattainable goal in the distance, represented by a green light across Long Island Sound.

“That is not an intrusion on the landscape,” Rumm says softly, pointing to the $270 million hospital addition in shimmering teal. “That is the completion of everything Mr. duPont set forth.”

A Brandywine Valley native, duPont created the Nemours Foundation with the express purpose of maintaining a charitable institution “for the care and treatment of crippled children, but not incurables, or the care of old men or old women, and particularly old couples.”

Delaware residents should be “properly provided for” before trust income was to be spent in any other state, duPont instructed.

More than 80 years after his death, duPont's wishes continue to be modified and reinterpreted by those who never knew him.

Phrases in his will like “first consideration,” “properly provided for” and even “children” and “old” are not legal terms, and, therefore, have been dissected in hundreds of pages of filings in Florida courts to fit into the rubric of 21st century health care.

Surprisingly little is known about why duPont selected health care as his pet project. Speculation points to his time grinding away in the mill, interacting with the polio-mangled children of his fellow workers. Wearing closely fitted knickers in the style of a golfer, duPont was known to lunch on stools at soda counters.

Once, when discussing the plight of the elderly, he said, “That they have not saved enough money to see them through their declining years is nothing against them. We all owe these old people a debt and we should meet it.”

As a child, Dent remembers visiting the original 60-bed Alfred I. duPont Institute with her grandmother, Victorine duPont Dent. As Susanna walked the halls, she was horrified to see Vietnamese children missing half their faces, victims of war who were sent to the Delaware hospital to receive free care.

That same afternoon, she would visit Alfred’s third wife, Jessie Ball duPont, at the mansion. Enchanted by the exotic birds and a basement duckpin bowling alley, Susanna roamed the exquisite but musty home while her grandmother chatted with the bedridden Jessie.

Now 57, Susanna returns to Delaware annually for family reunions and often stops to marvel at the growth of Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children. The recently expanded hospital spans more than 2 million square feet, featuring “serenity lounges” with frosted glass and a five-story atrium swirling above patients’ heads.

“When I saw the hospital and the beautiful building and how it has grown — in one way, I was really happy,” Susanna said. “In other ways, I was wondering, it seemed to have gotten so huge.”

“When anything gets that big, you wonder if the original vision is being followed.”

While the court case drags on, Susanna is lobbying to reclaim her family’s seat at the governing table after a nearly 20-year absence. Her father and former trustee Alfred duPont Dent died in 1997 at the age of 64.

In the last few months, the younger duPont has begun asking questions about the trust’s charitable focus and how she can become active on the board, explaining, “I just want to be involved in this legacy because I’ve been so alienated from it.”

So far, the response from duPont trustee Jack Porter, a family friend, has been polite but noncommittal, she said.

Like Andrew Carnegie or John D. Rockefeller, Alfred I. duPont gave away most of his wealth. But delivering that fortune to its intended beneficiaries has been contested for more than four decades.

As the grandson of Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, who founded the duPont gunpowder dynasty, Alfred was a study in contrasts.

He was a traditionalist determined to make his own way –– a deaf, partially blind banker who tinkered with music and machinery and worked as an apprentice in the Brandywine powder mill. But once he became successful, duPont built a Versailles-inspired palace and purchased multiple yachts. And during the holidays, he distributed hundreds of baskets of food, clothing and coal to the downtrodden in Wilmington.

Orphaned at the age of 13, duPont attended Phillips Academy in Andover and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Honoring his late father’s wishes, he returned to Delaware in 1881 to work in the mill, rising swiftly to the level of partner within a decade. Most of the more than 200 patents he registered were related to the powder-making process.

In 1902, duPont rallied to keep E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company in the family, persuading his cousins Pierre and T.Coleman du Pont to partner with him. Soon after, Alfred’s decision to divorce his first wife and distant cousin, Bessie, seriously strained family relations.

When Coleman du Pont chose to leave the company for health reasons in 1914, he secretly negotiated with Pierre to give the latter considerable control over the family business. Alfred and other minority shareholders sued, leading to Alfred’s removal from the board.

For a time, Alfred remained firmly entrenched in Delaware, investing in newspapers that opposed his relatives’ campaigns for public office. He lived in his chateau with breathtaking gardens on the 3,000-acre Nemours, which he had built for his second wife, Alicia, and named after the site of his family’s ancestral home.

Lined with pink flowering horse chestnuts and pin oaks, the grounds boasted an 800,000-gallon reflecting pool with 157 water jets. A nine-foot-tall stone wall topped with jagged glass offered seclusion from nosy family members. Inside, Alfred’s two mutts and one pedigreed Irish Terrier destroyed rare oriental rugs.

After Alicia died, Alfred married Jessie Ball, an educator 20 years his junior.

The couple moved to Florida in 1925 to escape paying higher taxes. Alfred’s cousin and rival, Pierre, had recently been appointed Delaware tax commissioner.

Alfred had fond memories of Florida, having accompanied his ailing mother there as a young boy. Later, he visited regularly on his motor yacht, Nenemoosha, which means 'sweetheart.'

To further disengage from Delaware, Alfred transferred all his land holdings except the Nemours estate into Florida corporations and established permanent residency in Jacksonville. There he built Epping Forest, a 25-room Mediterranean Revival mansion on the St. John’s River. At the time of his death, his assets included seven Florida National Banks and thousands of acres of land in northwest Florida.

In 1927, he wrote that his primary objective in Florida was not to make money. One of the great captains of industry, he wanted to be remembered for more.

“In my last years, I would much rather have the people of Florida say that I helped them and their state than to double the money I now have,” he said.

Yet Alfred never forgot Delaware. While living in Florida, he personally funded an old-age pension for every elderly, indigent citizen in Delaware before the state took over the responsibility. He also campaigned for the building of what is now the Delaware Hospital for Chronically Ill in Smyrna.

So, which state won his heart?

“He was a Delawarean by birth and a Floridian by choice,” according to Durden.

Durden’s office is located in Jacksonville, the city where Alfred died and where his will was probated. The $20 million, 40,000-square-foot trust building downtown cuts an imposing figure.

In 2009, the trust moved its headquarters to Jacksonville –– the same year the foundation began construction on a new 95-bed hospital in Orlando.

Located less than 10 miles from the Alfred I. duPont Middle School in Jacksonville, the trust building houses just 20 employees, its stone exterior, pyramid-shaped skylight, and eco-friendly rainwater cistern reflecting timeless elegance.

“We were looking for a 100-year building,” Durden said.

A major reason that Nemours has such a strong presence in Florida today is because of one short, stocky, tart-tongued man: Ed Ball.

Ball, Alfred’s brother-in-law and a power broker in Florida business and politics, managed and increased the value of the trust to $2 billion over nearly a half-century.

Lest you think Ball was just another stuffed shirt, his legacy was so intertwined with Alfred’s that his portrait sits in the cavernous library of the Nemours mansion and his bust occupies a prominent place in the trust's lobby.

A shrewd financier, Ball was Alfred’s confidant. After Alfred died of a heart attack in 1935 at the age of 71, Ball was named one of the original trustees, along with his sister, Jessie, Alfred’s son-in-law from a previous marriage and a representative of Florida National Bank.

But while Jessie kept busy trying to set up the pediatric orthopedic institute in Wilmington, Ball was tasked with growing the family fortune. He continued acquiring banks and eventually bought the bankrupt Florida East Coast Railway. Ball also established the St. Joe Paper Co. — which became the largest private landowner in Florida by the 1970s — and delayed paying annuities out of the trust, angering Alfred’s relatives who were named in the will.

From 1951 to 1962, the duPont estate reaped $74 million, but only 12 percent was distributed to the Nemours Foundation. Meanwhile, Jessie, the estate’s primary beneficiary, gained $59 million.

Soon after, Ball successfully persuaded the IRS to classify the Nemours estate as a “hospital,” even though it served fewer than 1,000 patients annually. The move exempted the estate from having to disburse 5 percent of its assets each year to charity.

In 1974, four years after Jessie’s death, The News-Journal published an investigation documenting how Nemours had given less than one-fourth of its annual income, or $3.3 million, to its charitable mission. The remainder, nearly $12 million, was simply added to the surplus.

Under federal probe, the foundation announced plans to finally open the Nemours Mansion and Gardens to the public, as Alfred had specified in his will. Ball tried to maintain a stronghold on the trust board, increasing the number of members and packing it with his appointees.

He was met with opposition from Alfred’s grandson, Alfred Du Pont Dent, Susanna's father, who filed suit against Ball in both Florida and Delaware for failing to carry out the charitable wishes of the elder du Pont. Joined by then-Delaware Attorney General Richard Wier Jr. and Gov. Pete du Pont, Dent won the case in the mid-1980s. His persistence forced Ball to commit to building a new 800,000-square-foot hospital next to the original Alfred I. duPont Institute, which opened in 1984.

Ball died in 1981. Emulating his “patron and hero,” he left nearly all his $160 million fortune — a considerable amount of it gained during his stewardship of the duPont trust — to treat “curable crippled children” in Florida. That endowment, which ballooned to about $225 million last year, has helped offset three consecutive years of operating deficits at Nemours’ Orlando hospital, according to a hospital spokesman.

Inside the Nemours mansion is a portrait of the muscular Alfred, a picture of health gripping a roll of blueprints. His brow seems to be set in fierce determination, though mansion director Rumm prefers to imagine him winking to offer some levity.

Despite Alfred’s genuine affection for Florida, he made Delaware his final resting place. Across from the original A.I. duPont Institute is a 210-foot-high carillon, constructed of pink and white marble with Brandywine blue rock steps and outfitted with 31 bronze bells. When it was built in 1936, it was the largest reinforced concrete tower in the world.

It also serves as a mausoleum for Alfred, Jessie and even Ed.

And when the Westminster chime strikes on the quarter hour, it delivers a resounding reminder that the family outcast and quiet benefactor is still here.

Contact Margie Fishman at (302) 324-2882, on Twitter @MargieTrende or [email protected].

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The accompanying plans show a 12-foot power tender designed bv Richard B. Cook and owned by Mr. Nathaniel W. Littlefield of Central Falls, R. L, who is using the boat as tender to a 38-foot yawl, which has no auxiliary power.

She is a good carrying boat, seating five comfortably, and has carried eight persons. After a season of cruising with prevailing light winds, the owner gives a good account of her as a towboat.

The boat is not designed for speed, as may be seen at a glance; her speed with two persons on board being about 4 1/2 to 5 knots. However, the plan shows smooth lines with a lean entrance and ample flare forward. The after forms have been made full, affording sufficient buoyancy to allow of the engine and all connected with it, including the operator, to be placed abaft the lazyback which divides the interior, leaving a seating space 4 by 5 1/2 feet clean and clear for passengers. This arrangement has the additional ad vantage of bringing all the weight aft when the tender is light and in tow.

The Rudder , v.27 1912, pp. 356-359.

13' Power Tender by Frederic Nock

The plans on the accompanying page show the lines and general arrangement of a thirteen-foot power tender designed and built by Frederic S. Nock, of East Greenwich, R. I., for Dr. F. T. Rogers, for use on his yawl Truant. The owner desired a light power tender, of not over 300lb weight, to carry on davits and capable of carrying six persons besides the crew. In the majority of the small power tenders, the engine is placed aft, and there fore the best of the boat is rendered useless as far as seating accommodations are concerned. Where the engine is not of any great weight the arrangement as shown is good, as it keeps the after part of the boat for the guests and forward for the crew. This boat was not designed to be towed astern of her consort and the weight of the complete boat is a trifle under 225 Ib. The planking is 3/8 in. cedar, the gratings, seats, sheerstrake, mouldings, etc., of mahogany.

The Rudder , v.18 1907, pp. 698-699.

Two More Yacht Tenders

Above, we show the plans of the two Universal-powered tenders for the yacht Nenemoosha. Both of these boats are of rather novel construction and the designer, E. R. Carroll, has not been bound by convention in getting them out. The tunnel stern boat will be used for fishing service and is arranged so that the owner can control the boat entirely from his fishing chair. She is 15 feet long, 4 feet 2 inches wide and only draws 6 inches with 3 men on board. The other boat will also be powered with a Universal engine and is strongly reminiscent of the English tenders. A feature is the crew cockpit and tiller steer arrangement. She is 16 feet long, 4 feet 6 inches wide and draws 16 inches.

The Rudder , v.38 1922, pp. 44-45.

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Nenemoosha , built by Peter Breen Antique & Classic Boat Company Ltd. in Rockwood, Ontario, and completed in 2007, is fitted out with original 1920s Ditchburn hardware, a 1940s spotlight, a chromed external rudder, custom bucket seats, a 1934 Chrysler Straight Eight engine, and a 100-year-old steering wheel, probably from a Ford Model T. The word Nenemoosha means sweetheart and is an endearment used in Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha.

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I have just joined this forum (the first forum of any sort that i have ever joined...) in the hope that someone here can help point me in the right direction for some information on the engines of my boat: a 37½ ft motor yacht built by C Van Lent & Zonen in 1963. The engines are as originally installed: Peugeot Indenor type XDP 6.85's. I have the manual of maintainance and operating instructions for these, but this is based on 4,000rpm setting - whereas i have found out that Van Lent adjusted the engines on installation to give 60hp at 3,000rpm. What i need to know (for the purpose of calculating the correct propeller size for my boat) is whether this is the maximum rpm figure(?) Also, how do i find out other information, such as the boat's displacement(?) My thanks in advance to anyone who can help me......
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Scope and contents.

The Nemours Papers are part of the Du Pont Family Collection and consist of 15 linear feet of records dating from 1831 to 1947. The bulk of the material dates from 1915 to 1935 and reflects the business, financial, and family affairs of Alfred I. duPont (1864-1935). In addition, the Papers include some of the records of Alfred's second wife, Alicia Bradford Maddox duPont (1875-1920), and his third wife, Jessie Ball duPont (1884-1970).

Document types include personal and business correspondence, as well as legal documents, which relate primarily to patents and to several lawsuits in which Alfred I. duPont was involved. Business and financial records relate to family matters, such as Alfred I. duPont's guardianship of Alicia Amory Maddox, as well as to professional interests such as mining. The Papers include printed materials, such as clippings, pamphlets, and magazine articles. They also contain a large number of photographs documenting the family and social lives of Alfred I. and Jessie Ball duPont.

The Alfred I. duPont Nemours Papers have been arranged as six series: Correspondence, Business and Financial Records, Legal Records, General, Printed Materials, and Photographs.

  • Creation: Inclusive 1831-1947
  • Creation: Majority of material found within Bulk 1915-1935
  • From the Collection: Du Pont, Alfred I. (Alfred Irénée), 1864-1935 (Person)
  • From the Collection: Du Pont, Jessie Ball, 1884-1970 (Person)

From the Series: 15 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Sub-Series: English

Physical Storage Information

  • Box: 29:25-26 (Mixed Materials)

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Part of the Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives Repository

Collection organization

Y11 Yacht Nenemoosha, crew, Box: 29:25-26. Alfred I Du Pont papers, WLU-Coll-0169. Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives.

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Y11 Yacht Nenemoosha, crew, Box: 29:25-26. Alfred I Du Pont papers, WLU-Coll-0169. Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives. https://archivesspace.wlu.edu/repositories/5/archival_objects/1307 Accessed August 26, 2024.

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    Nenemoosha. 1963. Nenemooshawas built for the proprietor of a toy manufacturing company in London. She has remained on the River Thames since and is now with her fourth owner. The name Nenemooshacomes from the vocabulary of Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha" and means sweetheart. Technical specifications.

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