Magnificent Yacht
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“Hussar” Causes Stir In Papeete
From Our Own Correspondent.
PAPEETE, March 22.
MANY private yachts call in at Papeete, ranging from tiny one-man craft, to palatial modern cruisers like the “Nahlin” and the “lolanda,” but we never have been privileged to see a more beautiful example of the ship-builder’s art than that pre sented by the yacht “Hussar,” when she came into port on March 12.
In the gracefulness of her lines, in lavish luxuriousness of appointments and equipment, and in sheer expensiveness, this vessel represents the last word in modern pleasure craft construction.
The “Hussar” is owned by E. F. Hut ton, New York stockbroker, whose brother is principal partner in the celebrated Woolworth ten-cent stores, and was built to his order at Kiel, Germany, in 1931. She is a four-masted barque, with a hull of Krupp steel, and top gear and rigging of English manufacture, and is of 2340 gross tonnage. Her machinery, which alone is stated to have cost her owner 2,500,000 dollars, consists of four Krupp Deisel en gines of 900 horse-power each for the generation of electricity, by means of which the ship is propelled when under power and by which her sails are operated when in use.
Naturally, there are electrical gadgets everywhere, including push buttons in every stateroom and gramophones cap able of playing 300 records automatically, to say nothing of a full sized talkie cinema outfit and an electrically operated laundry. Unfortunately, owing to the ab sence of wind, the sightseers along the waterfront were denied the pleasure of seeing this fine vessel come up under sail.
Mr. Hutton’s yacht flies the flag of the New York Yacht Club, and is said to have a cruising radius under power of 20,000 miles, without re-fuelling. She is com manded by Captain Larsen and carries a personnel of 72 officers and men, mostly Americans of Scandinavian origin.
The “Hussar” arrived here by way of the Panama Canal, having called in at the Galapagos Islands en route, and she left again for Honolulu after a very short stay of two days. With the exception of the owner and his wife and daughter, there were no passengers aboard the vessel.