KANAWHA

 16 Jan 23: 

Seems if we want to have a luxury yacht all we need to do is start up a little railroad, using some of our spare oil baron money. It would be a good tender for our small boat Armada.

"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. 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."

What is more interesting about KANAWHA is her second and third careers.

FMI: KANAWHA