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Clara Clarita
Clara Clarita
Clara Clarita after conversion to a passenger steamer, c. 1870
History
NamesakeLeonard Jerome's wife and/or daughter
Owner
  • 1864: Leonard Jerome
  • 1865: Pacific Mail SSC
  • 1870: New York Harbor Protective Co.
  • 1873: Fox Island & Rockland SBC
  • 1880s: Knickerbocker Steam Towage Co.
  • 1890s: Boston Towing Company
BuilderLawrence & Foulks (Brooklyn, NY)
Cost$125,000
Launched1863
CompletedJuly 1864
In service1864–1908
Refit
  • 1865: Towboat
  • 1870: Fireboat
  • 1870s: Passenger steamer
  • 1880s: Oceangoing tugboat
IdentificationOfficial No. 4873
Honors and
awards
  • Fastest towboat in New York, 1860s
  • All-time fastest steamer on Penobscot Bay
FateAbandoned, 1908
General characteristics
Type
  • 1864: Steam yacht
  • 1865: Towboat
  • 1870: Fireboat
  • 1870s: Passenger steamer
  • 1880s: Tugboat
Tonnage125 GRT; 62 NRT
Length
  • Original 130 ft (40 m)
  • later 115 ft (35 m)[when?]
Beam22 ft 8 in (6.91 m)
Depth of hold9 ft (2.7 m)
Installed power
  • 1864 original: 1 × 16 in × 36 in (410 mm × 910 mm) (bore × stroke) horizontal stationary steam engine
  • 1864 refit: 2 × 22 in (560 mm) bore × stroke inverted direct-acting engines
Propulsion
  • 1864 original: single screw
  • 1864 refit: single 9 ft (2.7 m) screw
Sail planOriginally two-masted schooner
Crew10 (merchant service)
Armament1864: 2 × 12-pounder (5.4 kg) Wiard steel boat-howitzers

Clara Clarita was a fast screw steamer originally built as a luxury steam yacht for New York City financier Leonard Jerome (grandfather of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill). On her trial trip, Clara Clarita's original engine proved so ineffective it was removed before the vessel entered service and replaced by machinery from a different supplier. Jerome sold the yacht after only a short time and she was converted into a towboat, becoming the fastest such vessel in New York Harbor, before being converted into a fireboat in the same locality.

In the 1870s, Clara Clarita underwent a third conversion, into a passenger steamer, in which role she set an all-time speed record for a steamer on Penobscot Bay. Her final conversion was into an oceangoing tug, some time after which her crew and captain were presented with a heroism award for a rescue at sea. The vessel was abandoned in 1908 after a long and varied 44-year career.

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