239. Yampa Photo date: 1893.

239a. Yampa

The December 1896 issue of Outing notes:

"The Yampa is another example of A. Cary Smith’s seagoing yachts. She is practically an enlarged Iroquois, and was built for Mr. Chester W. Chapin, the former owner of the latter yacht. Her dimensions are: Over-all length, 134 ft.; water-line, 110.9 ft.; beam, 27 ft., and draught, 14 ft. The Yampa is now owned by R. Suydam Palmer, and was, last season, chartered to Edward Browning, of Philadelphia. Her frames, like those of the Lasca, make a straight V from keel to water-line, and she is a very comfortable vessel in a seaway. That she is fast under favorable conditions is shown by the record of a run, under full lower sail and topsails, of 595 nautical miles in fifty hours, from Teneriffe to Cadiz."

The 1897-1900 editions of The Record of American and Foreign Shipping lists the 121' iron-hulled schooner yacht Yampa of New York, built in 1887 in Wilmington, Del. It was owned in 1897 by C. W. Chapin.

Howard Chapelle writes in The History of American Sailing Ships that Yampa was designed by Cary Smith, and was at one time the German Emperor's yacht.

The April 1898 issue of Outing notes that "The German Emperor has written a personal letter to Mr. R. Suydam Palmer thanking him for the handsome treatment he met with at the hands of the American yachtsman in the purchase of the schooner-yacht Yampa, and congratulating himself on having become the possessor of such a splendid vessel." It was renamed Iduna. Its adventures were serialized in the August 1898 through the January 1899 issues of Outing as "The Yarn of the Yampa."

In April 1902, the "ocean cruiser" Yampa was still under the ownership of the German Emperor and still known as Iduna.

According to Wikipedia, German Emperor William II or Wilhelm II (born Frederick William Albert Victor; German: Friedrich Wilhelm Albert Victor) (1859–1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling both the German Empire and Prussia from 1888 to 1918.

 

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