PALATIAL YACHT.
MILLIONAIRE’S COSTLY PASTIME. (United Press Association- By Slectrle Telegraph—Copy right.) NEW YORK, April 10. A report from Bath (Maine) states that Mr J. P. Morgan’s new 2,500,000 dollar yacht Corsair was launched after a financier’s daughter had cracked a quart of 1915 vintage champagne over the bow. It is the first time since Prohibition that such a christening has occurred at the historic shipyards. The luxurious vessel carries a crew of fifty-eight men, has a length of 343ift. over all, a displacement of 2712 tons and a cruising radius of 25,000 miles. All the exposed woodwork I is of Indian teak, except the panelling.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18542, 12 April 1930, Page 17 (Supplement)
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106PALATIAL YACHT. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18542, 12 April 1930, Page 17 (Supplement)
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