The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-03
PLANTS NEW YACHT
ONEOFLARGEST AFLOAT
Former Commodore of New Haven Club to Rank
 With the Best.

New London, July 2.-Former Com modore Plants new yacht will be built by Messrs. Ramage-Ferguson of Leith, England from designs made by Cox & King of London.
 The principal dimensions of the new sraft will be: Length, 3O5 feet oyer all,, 26O feet on the water line; beam, S7 feet six inches, and the tom mage, which will be about 1850, Lloyds yacht measurement, show that she will be the third largest pri- vately owned yacht in the world, the only larger ones being the Valiant and the Lysistrata.
 The vessel Is to be delivered within 50 weeks from the date of signing the contract, and be ready for cruising next summer, when it is understood Commodore Plant intends beginning a cruise around the world.
 The yacht will be fitted with two sets of four crank triple expansion en- zines and a combination of oylindical tubular and water tube boilers, with ample capacity for working under nat ural draft for high <. speed, having bunker capacity for about 600 tons of coal and an easy draught of water.
 Messrs Cox & King say that no oth- aN hA To tiNr1 of boilers of the RitsG ne:ittonetl, which are so designed that under ordinary conditions the vessel will steam with the cylindrical boilers, using the water tube boilers for speed steam may be got up with these last in half an hour
 The rig of the yacht is the ordinary schooner yacht type, with two masts. The superstrueture is one deck higher than on most big yachts, the bridge, or upper promenade deck, having house comprising chart room, captains cabin and wireless telegraph room. There is continu- ous promenade deck from the fore- castle head aft, on which there is a spacious smoking room with deck lay- atory and a handsome private suite, leonsstlng of stateroom, sitting and Itoilet rooms, besides several deck shell I ters. On the main deck forward is the main dining room, with service from the pantry and galley adjacent, yestibule, lounge, large hall with cloak lroom, surgery, dark room and hand tsome drawing room.
 Tho owners private suite, which is aft on this deck, consists of stateroom bath and dressing room, boudoir, with private communication to a very large Istateroom, bath and dressing room designed for the wife of the owner or the lower deck, and other private fam lily quarters. On the lower deck there is also accommodation for valet and maids. Forward on the same Ideck are spacious guests rooms, with bath and dressing rooms
 All the officers and crew which vii humber 50 are berthed forward, tho Iofficers' messroom being on the mair deck.
 mere VIII De complete retrlger Iating plant, very large cold storagc
 rooms and dstilling plant. One es
 pecial feature will be the electric in
 stallation, which will provide for tn,
 illumination of the whole vessel for,
 and aft. A se1rchlight and Hotchkis,
 quio firing guns will be among the yes sells equipment.
 l There will be a complement of eigh
 boats, including three launches,
 The fittings, furnishings and appli
 ances throughout will be of the mos
 modern type.
 Commodore Plants well know
 steam yacht, the Veneti, 664 tom
 built in 1903 Is also from the designs of Messrs. Cox & King.