Carnegie (yacht)
Carnegie was a brigantine yacht, equipped as a research vessel, constructed almost entirely from wood and other non-magnetic materials to allow sensitive magnetic measurements to be taken for the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. She carried out a series of cruises from her launch in 1909 to her destruction by an onboard explosion while in port in 1929. She covered almost 300,000 miles (500,000 km) in her twenty years at sea.
Carnegie on her first cruise | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Carnegie |
| Owner | Carnegie Institution |
| Builder | Tebo Yacht Yard, Brooklyn |
| Cost | US$115,000 |
| Launched | June 12, 1909 |
| Fate | Destroyed by fire November 29, 1929 |
| Notes | Designed by Henry J. Gielow |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 323 tons |
| Displacement | 568 tons |
| Length | 155 ft 6 in (47.40 m) |
| Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft | 12 ft 7 in (3.84 m) |
| Installed power | 150 horsepower |
| Propulsion | Producer gas engine |
| Sail plan | Brigantine |
The Carnegie Rupes on the planet Mercury are named after this research vessel.
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