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When she is commissioned, in about two months, the Williamsburg will be the sixth in her line. In the Republic's first struggling century, U.S. Presidents went yachtless. But in 1893, as the head of a rising naval power, Grover Cleveland took to cruising aboard the gunboat Dolphin. McKinley sailed in the Sylph, and by the time Roosevelt I took over the hefty (2,690-ton) Mayflower, a yacht was considered standard office equipment for a President...
Edward F. Hutton, Wall street broker, drydocked his famed auxiliary schooner yacht Hussar II at Brooklyn, prepared to be yachtless until his new boat, a square-rigged four-master, largest pleasure sailing vessel in the world abuilding in Ger many, is completed next September. The new craft will be 322 ft. over all, a crew of 70 men will...
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