Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wood, power-boater, said he had ordered a $175,000 aerial yacht, to be built by Dornier. It will have a 24-passenger capacity, with staterooms, shower baths, an electric refrigerator...
...connection with Vincent Astor, Marshall Field and Henry D. Whiton, and under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society, he financed Explorer William Beebe's expedition to the Galapagos Islands. On Galapagos there is a volcano now named Harrison Williams. In 1920 he bought the Krupp-built yacht Vanados, then Largest Yacht, rechristened it Warrior, equipped it with apparatus for testing ocean currents and temperatures. In 1926 he married Mrs. Mona Travis Strader Bush, onetime wife of James I. Bush, vice president of Equitable Trust Co. and took the Warrior on a round-the-world honeymoon. When...
Died. Major Frank Brian Frederic Bibby, 36, of Sansaw, Shrewsbury, England, chairman of Bibby Steamship Line (England to India); off Loch Leven, Scotland, on his yacht...
Rockwell Kent, artist, cruising the North with two 22-year-old companions on the 33-ft. sailing yacht Direction, in search of desolate scenes to paint, escaped with them uninjured when the Direction crashed on rocks near Godthaab, Greenland...
Prince Ibrahim of Egypt and a score of guests, including three women, swam about in nightclothes until rescued after the royal yacht Nazperwer (Beautiful Lady) had struck a rock off the foggy Norwegian coast near Trondhjem and sunk in eight minutes...