At the time of its launch, it had the largest gross tonnage of any yacht built in the United States (1342 GT), and it is still the largest steam-powered yacht ever built on American soil.

CITY ISLAND, N.Y., Dec. 15 -- In the Jacob shipyard here the lines are being laid down for a fine new steam yacht designed by Henry J. Gielow of New York for Spencer Kellogg of Buffalo.

BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 13. -- Commodore Morton F. Plant, Larchmont Yacht Club, has sold his steam yacht Parthenia to H.E. Converse of Boston. The Parthenia was built by the Herreshoffs in 1902 ...

But on the 10th inst. she was badly beaten in a long run by a small steam yacht of very insignificant appearance. TheruUILwa& fem. this city to Sing Sing, a distance of thirty miles, and was made ...

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