Title

A fast steam yacht

In

Engineering

Imprint

vol. 22, 20 October 1876, p. 350

Description

Accession No.2222

Abstract

The Times reported that there was considerable interest in the Geneva trials of a new steam yacht the Gitana built by Messrs. John I. Thornycroft and Co., Church Warf, Chiswick, for the Baroness Adolphe de Rothschild. The engines were compound direct acting, fitted with an injection condenser, and with a view to reducing vibration as much as possible were made with three cylinders acting on cranks set 120 deg. apart. The high-pressure cylinder was 13.5 in. in diameter by 16 in. stroke, and each of the two low-pressure cylinders was 15 in. in diameter with a 16 in. stroke. The boiler was of the locomotive type, of Bessemer steel, with a copper firebox and brass tubes. As there was no way of taking the completed yacht to Geneva, it was necessary to build her at Chiswick, take her to pieces, and send her, packed in boxes by rail. She was then erected at La Bellotte, on the shores of the lake by workmen sent from England.

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Vessels

• The Gitana (1873 - )