Lying in the screw dock on the East River at the foot of Market-street is the mastless steam yacht Meteor, with a V-shaped hull and a dome deck. Her designer and builder, Mr. A. Perry Bliven ...

she was badly beaten in a long run by a small steam yacht of very insignificant appearance ... two torpedo boats which are expected to run, when light, at the rate of 24 knots an hour, or nearly ...

It is acknowledged that the steam yacht Voyageur de la Mer, built at Boston for the Pasha of Egypt, lias proved a failure. About the why and the wherefore of this, there are two sides to the story.