USS CORSAIR TS MARVEL CROSBY STEAM GUAGE 1898

SUPBERB STEAM GUAGE SAID TO BE FROM THE USS CORSAIR - BUILT BY TS MARVEL SHIPBUILDING CO IN NEWBURGH, NY IN 1898. ORIGINALLY BUILT AND SOLD TO JP MORGAN AS HIS PERSONAL STEAM YACHT. ( CORSAIR III), GUAGE SERIAL NUMBER 537035. MARVEL BUILT SHIPS ON THE HUDSON RIVER FROM 1898 - 1914. CORSAIR SHIPS HISTORY HERE:https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/explore/photography/ships-us/ships-usn-c/uss-corsair-sp-159-uss-oceanographer-ags-3.html To escape the often tempestuous financial scene, J.P. Morgan found solace on the sea and owned a series of yachts during the course of his lifetime. He purchased his first luxury vessel in 1881, a 185-foot steamer christened Corsair. Nine years later, Morgan commissioned his first yacht -- the 241-foot Corsair (II). The Corsair yacht employed both sail and steam for propulsion. It was with the Corsair yacht that Morgan became commodore of the New York Yacht Club from 1897 to 1899. A haven from the public eye, the yacht Corsair was a pelagic playground for an elite few. Included among the onboard opulence was handmade bone china by Minton, Tiffany cigar-cutters, and a set of poker chips carved from ivory. The Corsair yacht served eight years for J.P. Morgan before she was purchased for $225,000 by the US Navy for service in the Spanish-American War. She was renamed USS Gloucester. The last commander of the famous USS Maine, Lt. Richard Wainright, commanded her. MARVEL HISTORY -T.S. Marvel Shipbuilding Co. was a shipyard in Newburgh, New York, that operated from the late 1880s until 1914. It was founded by Thomas S. Marvel and John Delany after the bankruptcy of the previous company, Ward, Stanton & Co., and quickly established a reputation for high-quality iron and steel vessels, including noted ships like the steam yacht Corsair and the Hudson River steamboat Hendrick Hudson. The yard's history includes a later reopening by the Marvel family after 1922, but the original company ceased operations before World War I. MEASURES 8" DIAMETER OVERALL - DIAL IS 6 1/2" - PROFESSIONALLY RESTORED AND CLEANED, CASE POLISHED AND MOUNTED ON CUSTOM HARDWOOD PLINTH DISC WITH WALL MOUNT.

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