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William E. Iselin Logbook for Yachts "Vigilant" and "Enchantress" (5456)

IYRS Maritime Library

449 Thames Street
Newport, RI 02840
Tel: 401-848-5777


Scope & content

Leather-bound album, with Iselin's name in gold lettering on the front cover, 160 pages, 30 June 1906 - 1923, mostly hand-written in ink (in at least two different hands) but also including tipped-in newspaper clippings, photographs, and typed and printed pages. Describing in detail annual cruises with the Eastern Yacht Club, and at least one with the New York Yacht Club, with information on weather, participants and guests. Two pages with humorous poems regarding guests or crew. The final record of "Vigilant" before she was scrapped.