Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . M YACHTING, 127 STEEL YACHT NOURMAHAL, 1884. Dimensions: Length on deck foreside ofrudder post to afterside of stem (or itsrake line), 232 feet 5 inches; length on water-line, 221 feet; breadth extreme (or its rakeline), 30 feet; depth of hold, top of floorsto underside of deck, amidships, 18 feet7>4 inches; depth molded, top of keel totop of beams at sides and amidships, 20feet; with five athwartship and two foreand aft bulkheads. The Nourmahal is a queen among steam mann, of City Island, , who designedthe vessel, supe
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . M YACHTING, 127 STEEL YACHT NOURMAHAL, 1884. Dimensions: Length on deck foreside ofrudder post to afterside of stem (or itsrake line), 232 feet 5 inches; length on water-line, 221 feet; breadth extreme (or its rakeline), 30 feet; depth of hold, top of floorsto underside of deck, amidships, 18 feet7>4 inches; depth molded, top of keel totop of beams at sides and amidships, 20feet; with five athwartship and two foreand aft bulkheads. The Nourmahal is a queen among steam mann, of City Island, , who designedthe vessel, superintended her construction;and an inspector of the English Lloyds,under the rules of which the yacht wasbuilt, performed his duty reference to the construction ofthe Nourmahal in these columns have con-tained in full the measurements and scien-tific data involved, which need not berepeated, but her internal arrangementsand fittings are entitled to Nourmahal looks the ocean yacht allover. Her model is exceedingly shapely, \j ^. /V\rX)uuc^\i5 ?DECK VIEW. yachts. She is of steel throughout, and inconstruction and fittings neither time normoney have been considered. A pleasurevessel capable of any service, either understeam or canvass, was required, and it isbelieved there is not afloat, to-diiy, in anyclime, a stronger, handsomer, or more per-fect craft. Almost a year has elapsed sincethe Harlan & Hollingsworth Company, ofWilmington, Del., began the preliminaryworks incident to the building of thisvessel, and had it not been for delays im-possible to prevent, in the matter of ob-taining required amounts of steel atrequired times, the Nourmahal would havebeen ready months ago. Mr. (iustav Hill- and the long, easy lines, with reduced areaof amidship section, cannot fail to attractattention. The bow has a peculiarly rakishappearance, and her elliptical stern is veryhandsome ; and while it is claimed there isgreater strength in this construction,
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