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''Kanawha'' was a 471-ton steam-powered luxury yacht initially built in 1899 for millionaire industrialist and financier Henry Huttleston Rogers (1840–1909). One of the key men in the Standard Oil Trust, Rogers was one of the last of the robber barons of the Gilded Age in the United States. He was also a "secret" philanthropist. Rogers was a major developer of coal and railroad properties in West Virginia along the Kanawha River. Aboard the ''Kanawha'', he frequently hosted his friends, including American humorist Mark Twain and black educator Booker T. Washington. After Rogers' death in 1909, the ''Kanawha'' served the U.S. Navy during World War I. After the war, it was sold to Marcus Garvey's ill-fated Black Star Line and renamed the S.S. ''Antonio Maceo''. However, the former luxury yacht was apparently in poor condition by this time. A boiler, used to generate steam to drive the ship, exploded, and a crewman was killed, while the vessel was located off the Virginia coast on its first voyage from New York to Cuba. ==Construction== Consolidated Shipbuilding was a builder of luxury yachts. The ''Kanawha'' was built in 1899 at the shipyard on Matthewson Road, in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx, New York City. The shipyard moved after World War II. The former shipyard property became part of Roberto Clemente State Park.〔()〕 The 471-ton ''Kanawha'' was approximately long. Manned by a crew of 39 people, ''Kanawha'' was often compared by the newspapers of the day to the ''North Star'', the yacht of a member of the Vanderbilt family. Even among its contemporaries in the fleet of the New York Yacht Club, ''Kanawha'' was a large vessel. The yacht cost $350,000 to build, and it had a record-setting speed of 22.2 knots.〔Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier, Apr. 6, 1902, at 16.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kanawha (1899)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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