a narrative of the excursion of Mr. Vanderbilt's Party to England, Russia, Denmark, France, Spain, Italy, Malta, Turkey, Madeira, etc.
by the Rev. John Overton Choules, D.D.
There is a good description of this remarkable vessel; we quote here just some of the data: "2,500 hundred tons burthen, a vessel large enough to carry the armament of a British seventy-four, 260 feet on the keel, 270 feet on the spar deck, 38 breadth of beam, 13 feet from floor timber to lower deck beams, 7 feet 8 inches between decks, 7 feet 6 inches between main and spar decks, making here whole depth 28 feet 6 inches. Her keel, of white oak is 15 inches sided by 14 inches wide, stem and stern posts of the same material, . . .The outside planking of white oak, 31/2 inches thick, increasing to 5 inches, is secured with copper bolts and locust trenails . . .The ceiling is of six-inch yellow pine, . . .forming one substantial mass of timber 14 feet in depth. . . . Her cabins and interior arrangements combine all that is required to insure comfort and elegance." The book is a fine descriptive narrative of cruising around the world in the grand style with some very fine Daguerreutypes of the principal characters and ports on the way. First published in 1854.
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