June 18, 1853
The Steam Yacht North Star
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The following is an original extract taken from the proof sheets of the next number of th " Knickerbocker Magazine," by Mr. Curti respecting the rise and progress of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Esq., the proprietor of the " North Star:" Until the age of sixteen, Mr. Vanderbilt was brought up on a small farm on Staten Island, owned and cultivated by his father. Arrived at this age, however, he found himself with a growing desire to make his livelihood by following the sea. He therefore left the farm, and commenced running a small sail boat between Staten Island and New York, which was owned by his lather. After the age of nineteeen he commenced life on his own account, following the same business for the space of two years. This brought him to the beginning of 1817, when his business life began with an activity and increased with an energy seldom equalled and more rarely surpassed. He now took charge of a small steamer running between New York and Elizabethtown, N. J., belonging to Thomas Gibbons. In 1818 he attended to the building of the steamer ' Bellona,' and was her captain for five years. In 18S0, he built the steamer ' Caroline." which, it will be remembered, in the troubles on the Canadian borders, in the commencement of the ' Patriot' movement, was cut out at night at Schlosser, on the Niagara river, and sent, wrapt in flames, over the Great Cataract. This was the first steamer which Captain Vanderbilt built on his own account. In 1821, he built the ' Fanny;' in 1822, the 'Thistle' and the 'Emerald;' in 1824 the 'Swan;'in 1826, the 'Citizen;' in 1827-8, the ' Cinderella,' the 'Clifton,' the 'Union,' the ' Champion,' the ' Nimrod,' the ' Livingston,' the ' Cleopatra,' the ' Sound Champion,' the ' North Carolina,' the ' Governor Dudley,' the Vanderbilt,' the'' Gladiator.' These last four steamers he built for a company, for the purpose of running between Washington and Charleston, forming the regular mail line. Then Captain Vanderbilt built the ' Sylph,' the ' Augusta,' the ' Emerald,' the ' Red Jacket,' the ' Hugenot,' the ' Hannah Burt,' and the ' Eastern,'all fine boatsthe ' C. Vanderbilt ' and ' Commodore,' which formed the great Boston line by the way of Stonington and the Railroad. Captain Vanderbilt next built eight steamers for the Transportation Company, and the five steamers (?) that ran between Havana and Mantanzas. He also purchased, refitted, and ran the ' New Haven,' the ' Huntress,' the ' Water-Witch,' and the ' Worcester.' His next ' American productions' in this kind were the steamships 'Prometheus,' the 'Daniel Webster,' the 'Star of the West,'the'Northern Light,' and the ' North Star.' Nor are the vessels here enumerated all that have been built by Capt. Vanderbilt; there are several others whose names we cannot now recall. Now we should like to have this hasty sketch of a poor American farmer's boy's early career and after advancementthis patent lesson of what industry, energy, enterprize, and integrity, can accomplish in a country of free institutions and tree American republicanswe should be glad to have it seen and felt in the various quarters of Europe where the steamer North Star shall unfurl the flag of our country. Mr. Vanderbilt has been, as we have seen, entirely the architect of his own fortunes. Amassing immense wealth, he has, at the same time, made the fortunes ot thousands of others. He is now a large proprietor of manufacturing and engine building establish- ments. He probably gives employment tc more hands than any other one man in America.
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Actually, the North Star was given to the British or Canadian governments in WW1. After the war, Neilly had a yacht named Winchester. Maybe more than one yacht after WWI.
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The colonial despatches of vancouver island and british columbia 1846-1871, north star , 1853-1866.
- 1. Will Lawson, Pacific Steamers (Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., 1927), 25.
- 2. John Haskell Kemble, The Panama Route, 1848-1869 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943), 237.
- 3. The New York Times [Archives], Return of the North Star , The New York Times .
- 5. Kemble, The Panama Route , 237.
- 6. Lawson, Pacific Steamers , 25.
- 7. Kemble, The Panama Route , 82.
- 8. John Overton Choules, The Cruise of the Steam Yacht North Star (Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1854), 19.
- 9. Kemble, The Panama Route , 237.
- Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 9 July 1862, CO 60:13, no. 8832, 269.
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The Steam Yacht North Star. June 1853 Issue. The Sciences. The following is an original extract taken from the proof sheets of the next number of th " Knickerbocker Magazine," by Mr. Curti ...
The North Star was damaged in action and was used after the war as a merchant ship trading with China. On April 29, 1930, Vanderbilt's yacht, the Winchester, was set ablaze following an explosion. [10] No one was injured as the crew were all eating in the galley, up front, but her owner's suite and guest suites sustained $500,000 of damage.
The North Star was the yacht of Cornelius Vanderbilt III, great grandson of the famous Commodore. The yacht was named in honor of the yacht Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr. owned. Vanderbilt primarily used the yacht as a retreat from his wife and he lived here until shortly before his death, at which time he sold it and moved to a much smaller one.
The cruise of the steam yacht North Star; a narrative of the excursion of Mr. Vanderbilt's party to England, Russia, Denmark, France, Spain, Malta, Turkey, Madeira, etc. ... - Vanderbilt, Cornelius,--1794-1877 Notes - A digital reproduction made from a copy held by the University of Michigan is available from the University of Michigan's Making ...
North Star, 1853-1866. North Star. , 1853-1866. North Star was a paddle-wheel driven steamer, 82 m long and 12 m wide, built by Jeremiah Simonson in 1853 for the US business tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt. 1. Vanderbilt toured Europe in the ship in 1853. 1 The New York Times reports on the North Star 's return to New York on 24 September 1853 and ...
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the founder of the family fortune, had his first job on a ferry boat and commanded a steamship and railroad empire so forcefully that he was nicknamed "Commodore." Yet when he headed off on a family cruise to Europe in 1853, the man in charge of North Star was not the Commodore, but a paid sea captain. When his sons ...
The cruise of the steam yacht North Star; a narrative of the excursion of Mr. Vanderbilt's ... A digital reproduction made from a copy held by the University of Michigan is available from the University of Michigan's Making of America Web site. Also available in digital form. Contributor: Choules, John Overton Date: 1854
The cruise of the steam yacht North Star a narrative of the excursion of Mr. Vanderbilt's party to England, Russia, Denmark, France, Spain, Malta, Turkey, Madeira, etc by Choules, John Overton, 1801-1856; Making of America Project
She was owned by Whittaker Wright from 1898-1902 as Sybarite, and William Clark in 1902 as Cherokee, and then purchased by Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1902 and named North Star. Vanderbilt was an experienced yachtsman and during his ownership she served as the flagship for the New York Yacht Club and cruised extensively abroad. She was at Cowes ...
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 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 ...
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The Cruise of the Steam Yacht North Star: A Narrative of the Excursion of Mr. Vanderbilt's Party to England, Russia, Denmark, France, Spain, Italy, Malta, Turkey, Madeira, Etc. John Overton Choules. Gould & Lincoln, 1854 - Europe - 336 pages .
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Steam yacht "North Star" owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt. Model has six lifeboats hanging from brass davits, life rings, cabins, windows, portholes, funnels, steam stack, binnacle, wheel, lights, railings, ladders, anchor etc... Mounted into a custom mahogany and glass display case with custom table stand. Dimensions: 50" long x 15" wide x 28 ...
She was owned by Whittaker Wright from 1898-1902 as Sybarite, and William Clark in 1902 as Cherokee, and then purchased by Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1902 and named North Star. Vanderbilt was an experienced yachtsman and during his ownership she served as the flagship for the New York Yacht Club and cruised extensively abroad.
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