- Jekyll Island Club Wharf State
Historical Marker
- Located in the wharf parking lot on Riverside Dr.
in the Historical District of Jekyll Island
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JEKYLL ISLAND CLUB WHARF
Here anchored the most luxurious
pleasure craft in the world during the existence of the Jekyll
Island Club, 1886-1942.
No other yacht was comparable to
John Pierpont Morgan's several Corsairs. Corsair II, too
large to dock, anchored in the channel. Morgan was escorted ashore
by a flotilla of small craft, after a cannon had sounded off
his arrival in these waters. Corsair II was 304 ft. overall,
beam 33 1/2 ft., draft 17 ft., speed 19 knots, tonnage 1,600.
About this Corsair Morgan, when asked how much it cost,
made his classic remark: "If you have to consider the cost
you have no business with a yacht."
Other palatial yachts owned by
Jekyll Island Club members were: Pierre Lorillard's Caimen,
James Stillman's Wanda, Astors' Nourmahal, Vanderbilt's
Alvah and Valiant. H. Manville's Hi Esmaro,
Jr., Pulitzer's Liberty, George F. Baker's Viking,
E. T. Stotesbury's Castle, Cranes' Illyria, Theodore
N. Vail's Speedwell and Northwind, Commodore Frederick
Bourne's Marjorie, Goulds' Hildegards, Saono, i and
Ketchum. Edwin Gould built a private dock in front of
his cottage, "Chichota." Andre Carnegie, whose family
owned Cumberland Island, visited Jekyll on yachts, Skibo
and Missoe.
063-28 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1958
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