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Tag: Alva Yacht

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  Dec 02 2022

  Video of the Week: The Vanderbilt Museum presents Moments in History: The Alva, A Ship for Seven Seas

  The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum created this 4-minute video on Alva, Willie K's largest yacht.

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  Aug 08 2020

  An Inside Look at William K. Vanderbilt Jr.‘s Alva Base on Fisher Island in Florida

  Earlier this year I had the opportunity to visit the exclusive Fisher Island in Florida and was able to tour Willie K's winter home Alva Base. Here is an inside look of his mansion and photos hanging on the walls.

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  Jan 23 2018

  From the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum: The Vanderbilts: A Century of Military Service

  Stephanie Gress, director of curatorial affairs for the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, has forwarded this article on how the Vanderbilt family have served our country for over one hundred years.

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  Feb 08 2017

  William K. Vanderbilt Jr.‘s 1937 Book “Flying Lanes”

  William K. Vanderbilt Jr. documented his 1937 South American trip in his Sikorsky S-43 amphibian plane in a limited edition book Flying Lanes.

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  Feb 23 2016

  Mystery Foto #8 Solved: A 1935 East Meadow Flyover by the United States Army Air Corps

  Scott Eckers challenged to you to identify this aerial from the collection of Art Kleiner

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  Nov 04 2015

  William K. Vanderbilt Jr.‘s Alva Base on Fisher Island in Florida

  Following his marriage to Rosamund Warburton in 1927, William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. traded one of his yachts for seven acres on an island near Miami Beach from Carl Fisher.

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  Jul 24 2013

  One of Yachting’s Dozen: William K. Vanderbilt Jr.‘s Alva

  In 2011, the editors of Yachting magazine selected 12 "yachts that we love" including Willie K's yacht which he used for expeditions from 1931 to 1935.

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  Oct 20 2008

  “Over the Seven Seas”: A Film Starring William K. Vanderbilt II

  William K. Vanderbilt II (Jr.), his wife Rosamund, his friends Mr. and Mrs. Earle Smith and crew set on a world cruise in 1931 aboard his beautiful 265-foot yacht Alva. They departed Long Island and traveled through the Panama Canal to the Galapagos Islands, the Society Islands, Samoa, Australia, Java,…