Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . llard for much valuable in-formation which they have kindly furnished. About thirty-three years ago, Mr. WilliamH. x\spinwall, of New York, the Presidentof the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,built a steam-boat 50 or 60 feet long, inorder to try an experiment with a wheel,which a Frenchman had invented, andwhich it was thought would be a consisted of a single paddle-wheel, in on Staten Island, and take pleasure-tripsdown the bay and sound. Her captain wasnamed, Dayton, and her engineer, JohnArmstrong. Her speed was f
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . llard for much valuable in-formation which they have kindly furnished. About thirty-three years ago, Mr. WilliamH. x\spinwall, of New York, the Presidentof the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,built a steam-boat 50 or 60 feet long, inorder to try an experiment with a wheel,which a Frenchman had invented, andwhich it was thought would be a consisted of a single paddle-wheel, in on Staten Island, and take pleasure-tripsdown the bay and sound. Her captain wasnamed, Dayton, and her engineer, JohnArmstrong. Her speed was from nine toten miles an hour. This boat was afterwards bought by theGovernment, and went south at the begin-ning of the civil war. Mr. Aspinwall then built his second boat,the Day-Dream. She was a composite ves-sel, 105 feet on the water-line; 17 or 18feet beam. She had a pair of upright en-gines in her, and one horizontal boiler, andan inside surface condenser. The model was made by Dr. Smith, ofGreen Point, and under his supervision the AMERICAN STEAM T\;rj«i<A5 SENTINEL, OWNED BY J. L. ASPINWALL, ATLANTIC YACHT CLUB. boat was built, at the Continental IronWorks. Her machinery was constructedby the Delamater Iron Works, of NewYork. The speed of this vessel was fromtwelve to fourteen miles. About the time that Mr. Aspinwall builthis first steam yacht, the Fire-Fly, his sonJohn, then a school-boy of about thirteenyears old, having a natural taste for me-chanics, used to go Saturdays to the Mor-gan Iron Works and the Allaire Works,and became very much interested in theconstruction of boats, boilers, and therefore determined to try and buildhimself a steam yacht, to be used on apond, on his fathers place. He succeededin building a flat-bottom boat, with a sharpbow, twelve feet long, and three feet sixinches wide, and placing in her an enginedriven by six alcohol lamps, and attachingit by cog-wheels to the shaft. He paddledabout in the pond at th
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