Tag: Tarantula Ii
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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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Jan 16 2018
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr.‘s Yacht: Tarantula II (1913-1918)
After the Vanderbilt Cup Races left Long Island in 1910, William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. turned his passion back to sea and decided to explore the world. He commissioned a new steel yacht Tarantula II to travel from port to port.
