Edsel Ford enjoyed boating. He owned an impressive collection of watercraft from large pleasure yachts to powerboats. In 1920, Edsel purchased the 58-foot, mahogany-hulled yacht Greyhound . According to a popular boating publication from that time, among the newly acquired pleasure craft's uses was to transport Edsel and his family to and from a new Ford summer retreat in Harbor Beach, Michigan.
Typhoon
Designed by George W. Crouch, whose three-point suspension hydroplane, Cinderella revolutionized early speedboat racing, and whose ideas for a motor torpedo boat were later incorporated into H. Scott-Paine's PT boat designs, Typhoon was built for Edsel Ford to be used for commuting between his home and the Ford plant on the Detroit River.
Edsel Ford
Edsel Bryant Ford (November 6, 1893 - May 26, 1943) was an American business executive and philanthropist who was the only child of pioneering industrialist Henry Ford and his wife, Clara Jane Bryant Ford.He was the president of Ford Motor Company from 1919 until his death in 1943.. He worked closely with his father, as sole heir to the business, but was keen to develop cars more exciting ...
Before the Continental: Edsel Ford's Speedster
Edsel Ford's 1932 boattail speedster, undergoing restoration in 2010. Although its chassis and running gear are from a 1932 Model 18 V8 Ford, the grille was borrowed from a four-cylinder Model B, modified to create a prow-like peak. ... yacht, and so on) paid for. Henry Ford was known for not being very 'fiscally responsible' either ...
Classics: Marlin
The 52-foot powerboat — with a double-planked, mahogany rumrunner hull — was designed by Boston naval architect Walter J. McInnis for Ford Motor Co. heir Edsel Ford. She was built at the F.D. Lawley yard in Quincy, Massachusetts, and launched in 1930, powered by twin Chrysler Royal engines. (Marlin was repowered twice, the Kennedys ...
Yacht Launched for Edsel Ford
Yacht Launched for Edsel Ford. The Onika, 125-foot yacht built for Edsel Ford of Detroit, sliding down its ways at Wilmington, Del. The vessel will be used in Florida waters this year by Mr. Ford. Adele Calais (left) and her sister, Marguerite, of New York sponsored the launching.
Edsel and Eleanor Ford on a Yacht, circa 1924
Edsel Ford had a great love for boating. He owned sailboats, motorboats and yachts, and he even competed in speedboat races. Edsel and Eleanor Ford's estate on Lake St. Clair at Gaukler Pointe, Michigan, included a boathouse for his watercraft. Edsel sometimes commuted by boat from Gaukler Pointe to the Ford Rouge plant in Dearborn.
Edsel's Fords finally come home
Edsel Ford's 1932 and '34 Ford Speedsters and his '39 Continental prototype are together for the first time at the Ford ... Harbor, Maine, and Palm Beach, Florida. Edsel shared that interest in boats with Gregorie, who had first worked as a yacht designer before stints at coachbuilder Brewster & Company and at Harley Earl's Art & Colour ...
Edsel Ford's Yacht, "Onika," at Hobe Sound, Florida, circa 1930
Edsel and Eleanor Ford commissioned their yacht Onika in 1930. The 115-foot-long vessel, built by Pusey & Jones of Wilmington, Delaware, contained four staterooms and was powered by two 275-horsepower diesel engines. The Fords primarily used Onika near their vacation home in Florida, but it was designed to be useable on the Great Lakes as well.
Edsel Ford's yacht Sialia being pumped out at Atlantic Works, East
Edsel Fords yacht Sialia being pumped out at Atlantic Works, East Boston. ... Edsel Ford's yacht Sialia being pumped out at Atlantic Works, East Boston. Photographer: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 Date: 1929 Format: Photographs Genre: Glass negatives Location: Boston Public Library Arts Department ...
The yacht, Onika, on ways
The yacht, Onika, on ways. Date Created . 1930-11-28. Summary . Contract 1048. Built for Edsel Ford, Detroit, Michigan. Originator . Pusey & Jones Corporation. Subject(s) Yachts Ships Houseboats Ships--Design and construction Shipbuilding industry. Subject(s) Wilmington (Del.) Find all items with name(s)
Edsel Ford's yacht Sialia founders in Boston Harbor
File name: 08_06_005314 Title: Edsel Ford's yacht Sialia founders in Boston Harbor Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer) Date created: 1929 Physical description: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in. Genre: Glass negatives Subjects: Yachts Notes: Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative ...
EDSEL FORD ORDERS YACHT.; All Steel Boat, 130 Feet Long, Will Be
EDSEL FORD ORDERS YACHT.; All Steel Boat, 130 Feet Long, Will Be Delivered in December. Share full article. March 22, 1929. Credit... The New York Times Archives.
Benson Ford
Benson Ford Sr. (July 20, 1919 - July 27, 1978), originally named Edsel Ford Jr, was an American businessman in the automotive industry, a vice-president of Ford Motor Company, and national co-chairman of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.Benson Ford remains famous for: being the first prominent person in the Ford family to actively preach religious harmony between faiths ...
EDSEL FORD'S YACHT GILDES INTO WATER; Onika, Launched at Wilmington, is
The yacht is being built by the Pusey Jones Corporation for Edsel Ford of Detroit. View Full Article in Timesmachine » ...
Isilkul
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Isilkul serves as the administrative center of Isilkulsky District, even though it is not a part of it. [1] As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the town of oblast significance of Isilkul—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. [1] As a municipal division, the town of oblast ...
Okunevo
Okunevo. Okunevo ( Russian: Окунево) is the name of several rural localities in Russia : Okunevo, Republic of Buryatia, a settlement in Tsipikansky Selsoviet of Bauntovsky District of the Republic of Buryatia. Okunevo, Chelyabinsk Oblast, a village in Kocherdyksky Selsoviet of Oktyabrsky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast.
Category:History of Omsk Oblast
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Edsel Ford enjoyed boating. He owned an impressive collection of watercraft from large pleasure yachts to powerboats. Typhoon was a sleek 40-foot mahogany runabout built in 1929. With a 600-horsepower engine, it was fast. Edsel used this speedboat for enjoyment and relaxation, and to commute from his Lake St. Clair home to his office at the Rouge Plant.
Novovarshavsky District
Novovarshavsky District ( Russian: Нововарша́вский райо́н) is an administrative [1] and municipal [5] district ( raion ), one of the thirty-two in Omsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,200 square kilometers (850 sq mi). [citation needed] Its administrative center is ...
Edsel Ford and Son Benson Ford on a Boat, circa 1940
Edsel Ford had a great love for boating. He owned sailboats, motorboats and yachts, and he even competed in speedboat races. Edsel and Eleanor Ford's estate on Lake St. Clair at Gaukler Pointe, Michigan, included a boathouse for his watercraft. Edsel sometimes commuted by boat from Gaukler Pointe to the Ford Rouge plant in Dearborn.
Edsel Ford's Speedboat "Typhoon," June 15, 1934
Edsel Ford enjoyed boating. He owned an impressive collection of watercraft from large pleasure yachts to powerboats. Typhoon was a sleek 40-foot mahogany runabout built in 1929. With a 600-horsepower engine, it was fast. Edsel used this speedboat for enjoyment and relaxation, and to commute from his Lake St. Clair home to his office at the Rouge Plant.
Henry Ford and Edsel Ford Leaving the Ship "Truant" after Inspection
Truant was a 138-foot, steel-hulled yacht built in the 1890s. Henry Ford purchased the aging ship in 1936 and began refitting it. Ford replaced the original 1892 Herreshoff marine engine with an engine designed under his personal supervision. In 1941, Ford loaned the yacht to the Navy as a training vessel. After its return in 1943, Ford had the ship scrapped.
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Edsel Ford enjoyed boating. He owned an impressive collection of watercraft from large pleasure yachts to powerboats. In 1920, Edsel purchased the 58-foot, mahogany-hulled yacht Greyhound . According to a popular boating publication from that time, among the newly acquired pleasure craft's uses was to transport Edsel and his family to and from a new Ford summer retreat in Harbor Beach, Michigan.
Designed by George W. Crouch, whose three-point suspension hydroplane, Cinderella revolutionized early speedboat racing, and whose ideas for a motor torpedo boat were later incorporated into H. Scott-Paine's PT boat designs, Typhoon was built for Edsel Ford to be used for commuting between his home and the Ford plant on the Detroit River.
Edsel Bryant Ford (November 6, 1893 - May 26, 1943) was an American business executive and philanthropist who was the only child of pioneering industrialist Henry Ford and his wife, Clara Jane Bryant Ford.He was the president of Ford Motor Company from 1919 until his death in 1943.. He worked closely with his father, as sole heir to the business, but was keen to develop cars more exciting ...
Edsel Ford's 1932 boattail speedster, undergoing restoration in 2010. Although its chassis and running gear are from a 1932 Model 18 V8 Ford, the grille was borrowed from a four-cylinder Model B, modified to create a prow-like peak. ... yacht, and so on) paid for. Henry Ford was known for not being very 'fiscally responsible' either ...
The 52-foot powerboat — with a double-planked, mahogany rumrunner hull — was designed by Boston naval architect Walter J. McInnis for Ford Motor Co. heir Edsel Ford. She was built at the F.D. Lawley yard in Quincy, Massachusetts, and launched in 1930, powered by twin Chrysler Royal engines. (Marlin was repowered twice, the Kennedys ...
Yacht Launched for Edsel Ford. The Onika, 125-foot yacht built for Edsel Ford of Detroit, sliding down its ways at Wilmington, Del. The vessel will be used in Florida waters this year by Mr. Ford. Adele Calais (left) and her sister, Marguerite, of New York sponsored the launching.
Edsel Ford had a great love for boating. He owned sailboats, motorboats and yachts, and he even competed in speedboat races. Edsel and Eleanor Ford's estate on Lake St. Clair at Gaukler Pointe, Michigan, included a boathouse for his watercraft. Edsel sometimes commuted by boat from Gaukler Pointe to the Ford Rouge plant in Dearborn.
Edsel Ford's 1932 and '34 Ford Speedsters and his '39 Continental prototype are together for the first time at the Ford ... Harbor, Maine, and Palm Beach, Florida. Edsel shared that interest in boats with Gregorie, who had first worked as a yacht designer before stints at coachbuilder Brewster & Company and at Harley Earl's Art & Colour ...
Edsel and Eleanor Ford commissioned their yacht Onika in 1930. The 115-foot-long vessel, built by Pusey & Jones of Wilmington, Delaware, contained four staterooms and was powered by two 275-horsepower diesel engines. The Fords primarily used Onika near their vacation home in Florida, but it was designed to be useable on the Great Lakes as well.
Edsel Fords yacht Sialia being pumped out at Atlantic Works, East Boston. ... Edsel Ford's yacht Sialia being pumped out at Atlantic Works, East Boston. Photographer: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 Date: 1929 Format: Photographs Genre: Glass negatives Location: Boston Public Library Arts Department ...
The yacht, Onika, on ways. Date Created . 1930-11-28. Summary . Contract 1048. Built for Edsel Ford, Detroit, Michigan. Originator . Pusey & Jones Corporation. Subject(s) Yachts Ships Houseboats Ships--Design and construction Shipbuilding industry. Subject(s) Wilmington (Del.) Find all items with name(s)
File name: 08_06_005314 Title: Edsel Ford's yacht Sialia founders in Boston Harbor Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer) Date created: 1929 Physical description: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in. Genre: Glass negatives Subjects: Yachts Notes: Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative ...
EDSEL FORD ORDERS YACHT.; All Steel Boat, 130 Feet Long, Will Be Delivered in December. Share full article. March 22, 1929. Credit... The New York Times Archives.
Benson Ford Sr. (July 20, 1919 - July 27, 1978), originally named Edsel Ford Jr, was an American businessman in the automotive industry, a vice-president of Ford Motor Company, and national co-chairman of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.Benson Ford remains famous for: being the first prominent person in the Ford family to actively preach religious harmony between faiths ...
The yacht is being built by the Pusey Jones Corporation for Edsel Ford of Detroit. View Full Article in Timesmachine » ...
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Isilkul serves as the administrative center of Isilkulsky District, even though it is not a part of it. [1] As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the town of oblast significance of Isilkul—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. [1] As a municipal division, the town of oblast ...
Okunevo. Okunevo ( Russian: Окунево) is the name of several rural localities in Russia : Okunevo, Republic of Buryatia, a settlement in Tsipikansky Selsoviet of Bauntovsky District of the Republic of Buryatia. Okunevo, Chelyabinsk Oblast, a village in Kocherdyksky Selsoviet of Oktyabrsky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast.
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Federal subjects of the Russian Federation: Republics: Adygea · Altai · Bashkortostan · Buryatia · Chechnya · Chuvashia · · Dagestan · Ingushetia · Kabardino-Balkaria · Kalmykia · Karachay-Cherkessia · Karelia · Khakassia · Komi · Mari El · Mordovia · North Ossetia — Alania · Sakha ...
Edsel Ford enjoyed boating. He owned an impressive collection of watercraft from large pleasure yachts to powerboats. Typhoon was a sleek 40-foot mahogany runabout built in 1929. With a 600-horsepower engine, it was fast. Edsel used this speedboat for enjoyment and relaxation, and to commute from his Lake St. Clair home to his office at the Rouge Plant.
Novovarshavsky District ( Russian: Нововарша́вский райо́н) is an administrative [1] and municipal [5] district ( raion ), one of the thirty-two in Omsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,200 square kilometers (850 sq mi). [citation needed] Its administrative center is ...
Edsel Ford had a great love for boating. He owned sailboats, motorboats and yachts, and he even competed in speedboat races. Edsel and Eleanor Ford's estate on Lake St. Clair at Gaukler Pointe, Michigan, included a boathouse for his watercraft. Edsel sometimes commuted by boat from Gaukler Pointe to the Ford Rouge plant in Dearborn.
Edsel Ford enjoyed boating. He owned an impressive collection of watercraft from large pleasure yachts to powerboats. Typhoon was a sleek 40-foot mahogany runabout built in 1929. With a 600-horsepower engine, it was fast. Edsel used this speedboat for enjoyment and relaxation, and to commute from his Lake St. Clair home to his office at the Rouge Plant.
Truant was a 138-foot, steel-hulled yacht built in the 1890s. Henry Ford purchased the aging ship in 1936 and began refitting it. Ford replaced the original 1892 Herreshoff marine engine with an engine designed under his personal supervision. In 1941, Ford loaned the yacht to the Navy as a training vessel. After its return in 1943, Ford had the ship scrapped.