Launch & Engine Company of Morris Heights, NY, and is one of the few remaining examples of early gas-powered yachts built before the First World War. The vessel's original owner, Joseph B. Cousins, commissioned the yacht for his fami ly's use on Long Island Sound and the waterways aro und Manhattan. 1he vessel sank in 1hunderbolt, GA, in 194 1. She was later resurrected and relatively well maintained until the late 1970s, when the vessel was abandoned out of the water at a backwoods boatyard. In 1990, a partnership of antique yacht aficionados moved
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