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Coronet, a 133 ft. schooner, was designed by Capt. Crosby, Smith & Terry of Greenpoint, Wm. Townsend of C&R Poillon shipyard, and John Harvey. It was built in 1885 by C & R Poillon in Brooklyn, NY. It was owned by William H. Langley. The June 1887 edition of Outing magazine includes an article titled "The Victory of Yacht 'Coronet'" which mentions that Coronet was launched in 1887 from the yard of C. & R. Poillion, and built under the supervision of Captain Crosby.
It is being restored by the International Yacht Restoration School in Newport, RI. See the restoration's homepage at http://www.yachtcoronet.org. On their History link they write, in part:
"Coronet was built in 1885 at the yard of C.& R. Poillon in Brooklyn, NY, famed for their yachts and working vessels. Modeled on the fast and able nineteenth century pilot schooners, she was created for New York Yacht Club member Rufus T. Bush to cruise the world’s oceans in comfort and style. He filled her elegant and powerful hull with fine appointments such as mahogany-paneled staterooms, a grand marble-treaded staircase, stained glass doors, a main saloon which featured mirrors, gilded moldings, a cloisonné chandelier, a tiled heating stove with a brass chimney and a piano.
"Coronet was the pride and joy of six more yachtsmen after Bush: Arthur E. Bateman (1890-1891); John D. Wing (1891-1893); Arthur Curtis James (1893-1898); Fred S. Pearson (1898-1899); John I. Waterbury (1899- 1901); and Louis Bossert (1901-1905). She cruised far and wide for them, circumnavigating the globe and voyaging to Bermuda, Nova Scotia and the Far East.
"In 1896 Arthur Curtis James placed the schooner at the disposal of Amherst College. The college’s astronomer, David Peck Todd, was mounting an expedition to northern Japan to view a total eclipse of the sun. Coronet transported members of the expedition and all of their scientific equipment from San Francisco to Japan and back again, covering nearly 40,000 miles by the time she returned to her base in New York. The expedition’s travels were chronicled in Corona and Coronet, published in 1898 by Mabel Loomis Todd, the astronomer’s wife."
Read much more of Coronet's history at http://www.yachtcoronet.org/history.htm.