Vincent Astor's yacht, the Nourmahal, was among the largest private boats on the seas. Partly financed by the more than $300,000 profits realized from his investment in the 1926 film version of ...

William Vincent Astor's life was one of unenviable isolation and singularly strange circumstances. Literally in the manor born, he arrived into the world in the Fifth Avenue mansion of his grandmother ...

Commodore Vincent Astor seems to be on the point of breaking gently with an ancient family tradi-tion, for he has Maxwell of Larchmont the twelve-metre sloop Isolde. When the windjammers begin their ...

When Franklin Roosevelt started to plan his customary spring vacation, first necessity was to find a seaworthy substitute for Vincent Astor’s Nourmahal, the “million dollar yacht” which sounded too ...