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IT is not surprising that the character of the great steam-yacht Livadia, just launched upon the Clyde for the service of the Emperor of Russia, is exciting widespread interest. Since Noah built the Ark, no floating and moving structure has been constructed in such direct contrast as this vessel with air that has gone before it. Every other ship afloat has, in its chief features, been a development of the ships that preceded it, not excepting even the circular ironclads of Russia, for they were not the first circular vessels that had been designed and constructed, and although they had some steaming pretensions, these were too moderate to challenge seriously either the principles or the practice of naval architects. In the new yacht of Admiral Popoft's design, however, we have a steamship that, by its very existence, challenges the fundamental principles upon which fast passenger steamers are constructed by all the rest of the world.
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The Russian Imperial Yacht, “Livadia” . Nature 22, 270–274 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022270a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/022270a0