page_title: Howard Gould
section_title: Yachting
hierarchical_section_title: Howard Gould / Career / Yachting
caption_attribution_description: English: Steam yacht Niagara, owned by Mr. Howard Gould, of New York. Launched at the yards of the Harlan &amp; Hollingsworth Co., at Wilmington, Delaware, February 19, 1898. Bark rigged, and modelled on lines by Captain W. G. Shackford, her commander, late of the Pacific Mail Co.'s fleet. New York Yacht Club.
context_page_description: Howard Gould was an American financier and the son of Jay Gould.
context_section_description: Gould was a competitive yachting enthusiast and owned a 272-foot (83 m) sloop yacht called the Niagara.  The vessel was built in 1895 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in Bristol, Rhode Island. He won Lord Dunraven's challenge cup with Niagara.
  In addition, he owned a large steam yacht, also known as the Niagara, which was built in 1898 by Harlan and Hollingsworth in Wilmington, Delaware. In 1912, he installed a Welte Philharmonic Organ aboard the ship.  On August 10, 1917, the U.S. Navy purchased her and converted her into an armed patrol yacht. She was commissioned in the Tebo's Yacht Basin, Brooklyn, New York, on 16 April 1918, Commander E. B. Larimer in command.
caption: Gould's 1898 steam yacht Niagara
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