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39-526: Atalanta was a 228-foot (69 m) steam yacht built in Philadelphia by William Cramp & Sons in 1883 for the financier Jay Gould . Atalanta was built for Jay Gould the same year that American Yacht Club was founded and its inclusion in the club's fleet of steamships was considered a great coup. Gould died in 1892, and it was sold to the Venezuelan Navy in 1900 where it served as

78-672: A Lord-in-waiting from 1893 to 1895. In 1893 Queen Victoria appointed nine members as the Royal Opium Commission , which consisted of seven British and two Indian members, which was headed by Lord Brassey, who served as the Chairman. The commission was to report on whether India Opium export trade to far east (China) should be ended and, further, whether poppy growing and consumption of Opium in India itself should be prohibited save for medical purpose. From 1895 to 1900 he

117-557: A "steam auxiliary", capable of covering long distances between coaling stations under her fully rigged sail area of 9200 square yards, but with enough fuel to steam for up to 20 days if necessary (she could carry 80 tons of coal). Their trip was made famous by a book written and published by his wife Annie Brassey - A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months . Within a few years other yachts were built for owners with

156-477: A hired yacht called Zillah he started to compete successfully in club events in a yacht called Cymba (1855). In 1859 he acquired the 120-ton iron yacht Albatross , designed by his friend St Clare John Byrne and built at his father's Canada Works. He was elected as a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron at this time. In 1866 he ventured into auxiliary steam with the yacht Meteor and in 1872 used

195-435: A low, smooth freeboard. Main propulsion usually came from one or two steam engines, later of compound type, or in even later, very large yachts, triple expansion or turbines . Steam yachts usually carried rigging for sails, originally as an auxiliary propulsion system, but later more for show and naval tradition. Private steam yachts were capable of long seagoing voyages, but their owners' needs and habits saw most stay near to

234-480: A member of Abbey Lodge No. 1184 and remained for 48 years. He was also a member of Derwent Lodge No. 4 and a founding brother of Navy Lodge No. 2612. When he was appointed Governor of Victoria, while he had never held any Lodge office, he was appointed Honorary Past Junior Grand Warden. In Melbourne, became a member of Clarke Lodge No. 98 and became its Senior Warden in 1896 and its Worshipful Master in 1897. On 4 May 1896 two days before being installed as Senior Warden, he

273-786: A private yacht. His son Thomas left the Sunbeam at Rio de Janeiro in order to return to school in England. His wife Anna, Lady Brassey (1839–1887), published an account of the cruise called In The Trades, The Tropics, & The Roaring Forties , or alternatively A Voyage in the Sunbeam: Our Home on the Ocean For Eleven Months . In 1880 Brassey's book The British Navy was published. In 1886, he started The Naval Annual (generally referred to as Brassey's Naval Annual ) He edited The Naval Annual until 1891. He

312-410: A residential hotel, now with 75 rooms including ensuites. It is said to have been built back-to-front, with the more ornate façade facing Belmore Gardens and its plainer face to Macquarie Street. 35°18′41″S 149°08′06″E  /  35.3115°S 149.1350°E  / -35.3115; 149.1350 Brassey's first experience of sailing was while he was still at Rugby school. After a short spell in

351-413: A similar sense of adventure, famously Lancashire Witch for Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh, 7th Baronet and Wanderer for Charles Joseph Lambert. These sailing yachts, with steam auxiliary power, were more expensive to build and run, but gave the owners the freedom to roam the world without necessarily planning their routes via the network of coaling stations in existence at this time. In addition

390-406: Is a class of steam yacht in the luxury category. In 1876-77, British politician Thomas Brassey took his wife and children on a world cruise in their newly built yacht, the 532 ton Sunbeam . Brassey preferred sail as the primary source of motive power, but knew from years of experience the advantages of steam power, when wind and tide made progress difficult. Sunbeam was, therefore, designed as

429-509: Is closer to the original meaning of the word "yacht", coming from the Dutch term Jacht , describing a small, fast commercial vessel. The distinction between a commercial steam yacht and a coastal trading vessel is not a clear one, but the latter term usually implies a mainly cargo-carrying ship. Steam yachts were often run by packet companies operating regular, timetabled services between islands or coastal towns. Steam yachts were widely used in

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468-635: The Quest are all examples of commercial vessels that went on to become steam yachts used during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration . It was common for expedition leaders to be members of a yacht club , so many of these ships were registered to a civilian club and flew a club burgee (and a blue ensign in the case of British steam yachts). Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance and Roald Amundsen's Fram are unusual cases of vessels being purpose-built as icebreaking private steam yachts. Endurance

507-854: The First World War , the SY Hildegarde was renamed as the Managem . On 15 January 1917 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and armed with a 12 pdr naval gun. Notably she was stationed off Atlit in Israel and used to relay espionage messages from operatives onshore (and briefly used by the Jewish "Nili" espionage group). Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey GCB , TD , JP , DL (11 February 1836 – 23 February 1918),

546-569: The Menai . In cooperation with the Scottish engineer Robert Napier , whose Govan, Glasgow yard built a number of them, Smith did much to improve the hull design of steam yachts. After 1856, when the Royal Yacht Squadron (the Club became Squadron in 1833) removed their edict, steam yacht building began to multiply. In England around 1901, some steam-powered fairground swings attempted to recreate

585-561: The naval trawler was more suited to these kinds of tasks. Steam yachts often used the ship prefix SY , but some were alternatively described as screw schooner , if they carried schooner rig. A fine example of the screw schooner is the 125 year old British Amazon , built at Southampton in 1885 from designs by the renowned Dixon Kemp and still in use in the USA after crossing the Atlantic in 2009, although diesel-propelled since 1937. She

624-456: The whaling trade. The light, fast design of a steam yacht was ideal for chasing whales, and the lack of a large amount of cargo space did not matter as whaling produced few bulky products. Commercial steam yachts were rarely as ornate or luxurious as their private counterparts, with simpler, more rugged lines and usually a more practical sailing rig. Steam yachts used in the whaling trade often had reinforced hulls to allow them to operate amongst

663-613: The coast. Inland seas such as the Baltic and the Mediterranean were popular areas for using steam yachts. Statistics show that Clydeside was the premier building area for steam yachts in the United Kingdom: 43 shipbuilding yards on Clydeside built 190 steam yachts between 1830 and 1935. Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd of Greenock Scotland built 23 steam yachts between 1876 and 1904. The auxiliary steam yacht

702-589: The entrepreneur Thomas Assheton Smith (II) (1776–1858), (his first of three Fire Queen s) by Robert Napier, Govan, Glasgow and launched on 27 July 1844, Napier Yard No 5, engine No 88. She was bought by the British Admiralty in July 1847 for £5,000 for use as a tender; there is an illustration (incorrectly captioned) of her in that role. She was sold on 4 August 1883 for £1,100 by the Admiralty to Castle

741-717: The gunboat Restaurador (Restorer). It was captured by the Imperial German Navy during the Venezuelan crisis of 1902–03 and put into service under a German flag as part of the blockading squadron. After the crisis, it was returned to the Venezuelans. It was renamed General Salom and continued in service until 1950. This article about a specific civilian ship or boat is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Steam yacht The English steamboat entrepreneur George Dodd (1783–1827) used

780-433: The ice of frozen waters. This meant that several whaling-yachts crossed the definition from commercial to private yacht in later life when they were bought for polar exploration work. Since these expeditions were, by and large, privately funded the ships used became, by definition, private steam yachts and many were registered with the 'SY' prefix used for such craft. The Aurora , Morning , Nimrod , Terra Nova and

819-743: The oldest steam yachts, and one of the few still surviving today, is the Kheideval Yacht, Mahroussa , which was built in 1865 and was maintained in seaworthy condition by the Egyptian government. The Hildegarde and Hiawatha were steam yachts chartered by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom) - Directorate of Fisheries, now known as the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) between 1912 and 1914 to carry out fishery investigations. Before

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858-521: The relocation of the Federal Parliament from Melbourne to Canberra. Brassey House originally offered 45 rooms with shared bathing facilities, for the exclusive use of members of parliament and mid-level government officials relocating to Canberra. During the mid 1960s the government of the day expanded the capacity to 131 rooms and added conference and meeting rooms. It was sold in the mid-1980s to local businessmen and has been operated since as

897-401: The shipbreakers. Fire Queen was replaced by the Admiralty by the former Steam yacht Candace , launched on 23 September 1881 by Ramage & Ferguson, Leith, bought by the Admiralty in 1882 and then duly renamed Fire Queen . In the First World War vessels such as these and several requisitioned private yachts were used on anti- U-boat patrols and for minesweeping . It became clear that

936-846: The sole candidate and therefore elected Grand Master. Brassey married firstly, in 1860, Anna Allnutt , daughter of John Allnutt , of Clapham , Surrey . They had one son and four daughters. The third daughter, Lady Muriel Agnes, married Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr , and was the mother of Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr , while the fourth daughter, Lady Marie Adelaide , married Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon . Lady Brassey died in September 1887, aged 47. Brassey married secondly Lady Sybil de Vere Capell, daughter of Arthur Capell, Viscount Malden, and sister of George Capell, 7th Earl of Essex , in 1890. They had one daughter. Brassey died in February 1918, aged 82, and

975-424: The steam yacht Eothen to visit Canada, but she proved not to be best suited for this type of work. Eothen had formerly been owned by P&O co-founder Arthur Anderson . Between 6 July 1876 and 27 May 1877 Brassey circumnavigated the world in his steam-assisted three-masted brigantine Sunbeam , another yacht designed for him by St Clare Byrne. This voyage is said to have been the first circumnavigation by

1014-495: The steam yacht experience; one example was built by the fairground equipment engineer Frederick Savage. The term "steam yacht" encompasses vessels of several distinct uses, but of similar design. A luxury yacht in the modern sense is a vessel owned privately and used for pleasure or non-commercial purposes. Steam yachts of this type came to prominence from the 1840s to the early-20th century in Europe . The first British royal yacht

1053-518: The term "steam yacht" to describe the steamer Thames , ex Duke of Argyle . Her service on the river had first been advertised on 22 June 1815 as "Thames Steam Yacht", intended to emphasise how luxurious these vessels were. The first two private steam yachts known were: Thomas Assheton Smith II was excluded from the Royal Yacht Club for his advocacy of the steam yacht, eight of which he commissioned between 1830 and 1851, beginning with

1092-589: The yacht masters were not totally reliant on the quality of the steaming coal available to them, that could at times be questionable. When not in steam, the funnel on the auxiliary yacht would be lowered and the propeller feathered to reduce drag. Those of the second class of steam yacht were built for commercial use, but gained the 'yacht' title due to their size and design similarity with the private vessels and because they were not constructed to be mainly cargo- or passenger-carrying vessels, but as versatile, low- draft ships capable of working local coastal routes. This

1131-774: Was Victoria & Albert of 1843. Nominally the first steam yacht in the United States was Cornelius Vanderbilt 's North Star , launched in 1854; however, this was actually a full-size steamship fitted out for the personal use of Vanderbilt and his family, and left no legacy on steam yacht design. The first true steam yachts known to have been built in the United States, Leonard Jerome ' s Clara Clarita and R. F. Loper ' s Wave , were completed in 1864. Steam yachts were commissioned by wealthy individuals and often heads of state as extravagant symbols of wealth and/or power. They were usually built with similar hull-lines to clipper ships , with an ornate bow structure and

1170-650: Was Governor of Victoria , a colony in Australia, and lived in its capital, Melbourne , in Government House . He returned to the United Kingdom in March 1900, by way of Colombo . Brassey is remembered in Australia's national capital, Canberra , with Brassey House, now a hotel (originally a guest house ) in the inner suburb of Barton, Australian Capital Territory , completed in 1927 to coincide with

1209-621: Was President of the first day of the 1874 Co-operative Congress . He served under William Ewart Gladstone as Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1880 to 1884 and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty from 1884 to 1884. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1881 and raised to the peerage as Baron Brassey , of Bulkeley in the County of Chester, in 1886. He again held office under Gladstone and then Lord Rosebery as

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1248-516: Was called to the Bar , Lincoln's Inn , in 1864. Brassey was briefly Member of Parliament (MP) for Devonport in 1865, winning the seat at a by-election in June and then losing it again the general election in July . He returned to Parliament three years later as the representative for Hastings at the 1868 general election , holding that seat until he was defeated at the 1886 general election . He

1287-553: Was President of the London Chamber of Commerce 1901–1902. He served as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports from 1908 to 1913. He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1906 and made Viscount Hythe , of Hythe in the County of Kent, and Earl Brassey in 1911. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the part-time 6th (Hastings) Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteer Corps on 1 June 1861, and

1326-474: Was a British Liberal Party politician, governor of the Colony of Victoria and founder of The Naval Annual . Brassey was the eldest son of the railway magnate Thomas Brassey (1805–1870), by his wife Maria Harrison, a daughter of Joseph Harrison, a forwarding and shipping agent. He was the elder brother of Henry Brassey and Albert Brassey . He was educated at Rugby and University College, Oxford , and

1365-460: Was installed Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Victoria. His becoming of Grand Master was a bit controversial because many members preferred then-current Grand Master Sir William Clarke, 1st Baronet to stay and nominated him again. Clarke said that he would like the nomination to be withdrawn if Brassey was willing to serve. Brassey approved and Clarke withdrew the nomination, so Brassey was

1404-461: Was later the captain of the 9th (Pevensey) Cinque Ports AVC. He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the successor unit, the 2nd Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers on 2 December 1891. King David Kalākaua of Hawaii bestowed on Brassey the honour "Knight Commander of the Royal Order of Kalākaua ". Brassey was a freemason . He was initiated to the craft as an Oxford student. In 1868, he became

1443-522: Was originally built for conducting tourist cruises of the Arctic, bringing her close to the definition of a yacht in the modern sense. The Royal Navy used small numbers of steam yacht-type vessels from the Victorian era onwards to transport men and equipment in harbour, act as coastal escorts for larger ships and for training and exercises. A good example of this was the iron p.s. Fire Queen built for

1482-685: Was photographed on Columbus Day 2009 on a mooring near the Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, Rhode Island . Aurora built by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd, Glasgow in 1876 (a former whaling-yacht turned Antarctic exploration vessel) is a notable example of the class, as are the Victorian era yachts used by European monarchs , such as the HMY Victoria and Albert III and the SMY Hohenzollern . One of

1521-650: Was succeeded as editor by his son Thomas . At the age of 79 Brassey sailed his yacht Sunbeam to Moudros Bay as a hospital ship for the Gallipoli campaign . Brassey was President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1879 to 1880. He was conferred with Honorary Membership of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland in 1891. Following his return from Australia, he

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