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Vincent Astor, Gentleman Spy

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, Caroline Astor, who ruled mercilessly over the Knickerbocracy of Manhattan high society. News of his birth in 1891, near the end of the gaudy binge of the Gilded Age, was announced on the front pages of the city’s newspapers, and invariably included estimates of the family’s vast fortune.

However, whatever expectations existed that he would grow into a suave prince of high society were eventually and forever abandoned. Tall and gangly, he would never have been mistaken for handsome. The sickly aspect of his youth never quite left him. Socially awkward among business associates, friends, and in public, he would invariably be defined by the enormous family fortune.

In 1912, his father, recently divorced and more recently married to a woman not much older than Vincent, perished on Titanic, and the majority of the family fortune and vast real estate holdings passed to Vincent. Just 20, he withdrew from his sophomore year at Harvard to manage a portfolio of real estate so extensive as to have earned his family the not altogether flattering sobriquet “New York’s Landlord.” Accumulated over generations of Astors, who bought but rarely sold, the holdings included large swaths of land throughout Manhattan and outer boroughs.

Young Astor, according to most accounts, was a competent though not particularly enthusiastic steward of the real estate empire. Perhaps more than anything, he exhibited signs of civic duty. He supported charities, built a playground and baseball field in Harlem, donated land to the city for public housing, and settled lawsuits not always in the interest of the family fortune. He served on obscure committees, supported well-intentioned reform movements lacking in social cache or fancy charity balls. In one instance, he landed on the executive committee of the America Rumanian-Jewish Emancipation Committee, a very niche organization dedicated to fighting antisemitism in Romania. He founded a home for convalescence of children of the underprivileged not far from his estate in Rhinebeck, New York, which still exists today as Astor Services for Children & Families.

“Is it unreasonable to suppose that because a man is rich, he is also useless?” he once asked. Of course, there was no lack of organizations seeking his financial support, while those that could make use of his natural intellect and enthusiasm were few and far between.

Just when young Astor became intrigued by espionage is unclear. As with many of its practitioners, he seems to have stumbled into it. During WWI he was among dozens of members of the New York Yacht Club who made their yachts available for service, then served as a junior officer on it as a convoy escort. And he seemed to have maintained contact with Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) during the interwar years, providing morsels of intelligence as they came his way.

In 1930, ONI records noted information Astor transmitted while yachting in the Caribbean and Pacific. However, as was later reported, he was seen as enthusiastic, if a bit naïve about spying. This would not have been an unusual assessment of amateur spies, typically judged dilettantes by the professionals. 

Working in the background, Astor was also a founding member of The Room (later known as The Club), a small tightly knit group of powerful, well-connected men who met in secret to share intelligence garnered from New York’s social whirl, travel, and business dealings. Started in 1927, among the club members who met monthly in an unremarkable apartment at 34 East 62 Street were Winthrop W. Aldrich, chairman of Chase National Bank; publishing magnet Nelson Doubleday; diplomat David K.E. Bruce; Marshall Field III, scion of the Chicago department store family and publisher; Allen Dulles, a future Director of Central Intelligence, then a Wall Street lawyer; and William Donovan, a World War I Medal of Honor recipient and future head of America’s first civilian spy organization, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), at the time working at a Wall Street law firm. Also members of The Room were Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt Jr., two of the former President’s sons.

The Room was largely made up of amateurs, though some of its members did have experience in espionage.

The naturalist and explorer C. Suydam Cutting served in Europe under General John J. Pershing in G-2; William Rhinelander Stewart (the “Best Dressed Man In New York City”), served in ONI; and Sir William Wiseman, a one-time British spy, who settled in the city as an investment banker, is also said to have been a member. Wiseman was perhaps the most skilled and experienced practitioner among the group, having run British intelligence operations in the U.S. during WWI and acting as back channel to President Woodrow Wilson.

An occasional guest would also make an appearance at the Room’s meetings. The famous author and former spy Somerset Maugham, whose book Ashenden (1927) had caused quite the stir by mixing spy fact and fiction, spoke to the members. So did polar explorer Richard E. Byrd. Astor, in fact, was the primary backer of Byrd’s 1929 aeronautical expedition to Antarctica, subsequently getting a mountain there named after him .

These were very much men of a larger world at a time when travel was beyond the means of most. Jetsetters before there were jets, they traveled on the grand ocean liners and private yachts to the capitals of Europe, South America, and beyond, bringing back political insights, gossip, business rumors, and economic news. They were also dedicated private clubmen. No doubt, members of some of New York’s most exclusive clubs shared news and opinions, unaware their tales would be discussed in an even more exclusive club.

Relevant items were discreetly passed on to officials in the State Department, the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) or other agencies. However, with the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the presidency in 1933, the Room’s activities picked up considerably.

Cryptic Cabinet

Roosevelt, of course, welcomed the bits and pieces members of The Room passed along. The president’s fondness for intelligence—confidential sources—was well known, even extending to fiction. When Kermit Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s oldest son, needed a gift for the president, he chose a book from the Clubfoot espionage series by Valentine Williams. It’s notable that Williams, as a real-life British spy, earned a place in espionage history for a brief encounter with British traitor Harold “Kim” Philby, also a fan of the Clubfoot series. He gets a call out in Philby’s memoir, My Silent War , in which the two share a Rolls Royce car ride into London.

The amateur spies of The Room were still amateurs, receiving no payment for their efforts or official directives to guide them. This was by design. The fact they were not connected to any official intelligence organization provided cover for the president in the event their activities were detected. America, after all, was still officially neutral in the conflict.

The make-up of The Room’s members would have also appealed to the president. While assistant secretary of the Navy, he dabbled in intelligence by way of the ONI, slotting in friends from Harvard and members of the upper crust among the ranks of volunteers. Just as with those early ONI recruits, virtually all the members of The Room were personally known to FDR through boarding schools, college, or elite social circles. Some, like Astor, could lay claim to connections in England, either through blood, schooling, or business.

Needless to say, neither Roosevelt’s ONI nor The Room were egalitarian enterprises. Most members had been born into their place of privilege. They were very much men of their time and social standing, possessing all the foibles, follies, and unquestioned certainties considered unseemly today. However, their place as “gentlemen” bestowed on them the trust and easy access required to act as effective spies.

Gentlemen spies were not new. Men of considerable means and wide-ranging trusted contacts had long been involved in espionage,both in formal and informal ways. Even early British espionage thrillers, such as The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (1903), by Erskine Childers, featured a pair of U.K. yachtsmen as amateur spies foiling a dastardly German plot.

With so many of the Room’s members captains of industry, the acquisition of intelligence was not difficult. In one instance, Aldrich, in his position at Chase National, accessed information on suspicious funds flowing through foreign bank accounts like Japan and the Soviet Union. “Espionage and sabotage need money, and that has to pass through the banks at one stage or another,” Astor wrote the President.

Indeed, in the case of AMTORG, the Soviet trade organization, questionable expenditures at one point totaled an estimated $2 million a week, at least some of which was said to be used for espionage. This bit of intelligence was particularly prescient as AMTORG would prove a persistent spy nest for decades.

In another instance, Astor, as director of Western Union Cable Company, passed along bits of correspondence from foreign operatives and officials sent through the company’s lines. He is also reported to have terminated an agreement that would have provided a more efficient means of communication for Axis powers, according to ONI historian Jeffrey M. Dorwart.

However, even more noteworthy, Astor maintained close contact with James Paget and his deputy, Walter Bell, of Great Britain’s Passport Control Office, which served as a front for British spy operations. It was Astor who acted as a reliable back channel between British intelligence and FDR.

That the British cooperation was “unofficial” was understood from the start, at least as far as Astor was concerned.

Back Channel

“Shortly after the ‘club’’s {sic] formation, it occurred to me that Paget and Bell might from time to time obtain leads useful to us,” he wrote to FDR. “I therefore arranged a meeting with Paget, at which I asked for unofficial British cooperation, but made it clear that we, for obvious reasons, could not return the compliment in the sense of turning over to them any of our confidential information.”

He added, “This somewhat one-sided arrangement was gladly accepted, This was natural, inasmuch as any success that we might have in discouraging sabotage, etc., would be to his advantage.”

Not stated, though clearly to British advantage, was not only the proverbial foot in the White House door, but a trusted conduit to the president that bypassed the State Department or FBI.

True to its word, British intelligence did provide Astor access to secrets. In perhaps the most significant instance of sharing, they allowed him to rummage through diplomatic pouches intercepted in the British Crown colonies of Trinidad and Bermuda. The intelligence garnered from these intercepts proved a treasure trove of intelligence for the president.

“In regard to the opening of diplomatic pouches in Bermuda and Trinidad, I have given my word never to tell anyone—with always you excepted,” Astor wrote FDR.

“The fear of the British is that if the facts became known, the writers would exercise great caution or send their letters via a different route.” It is possible, if not likely, this mail-opening operation was conducted at Ferry Reach, Astor’s Bermuda estate.

New SpyTalk contributor Henry R. Schlesinger is an author and journalist who has been writing about things espionage for more than two decades. His most recent book is Honey Trapped: Sex, Betrayal, and Weaponized Love .

This article first appeared on  Spytalk.co .

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Socialite, and Spy Master: Vincent Astor, FDR’s Area Controller of Intelligence for New York

By William Villano, Astor Project Digital Curator.

Shortly after 10:00 am on Tuesday morning May 27, 1941 the tall, thin, well dressed gentleman approached Hudson Terminal. His fine tailored suit, immaculately polished shoes, and priceless pocket-watch, that relic which had been held by his father as he perished in the icy waters of the North Atlantic aboard the Titanic, hinted at his immense wealth. With over 60 million annual visitors, Hudson Terminal was one of Manhattan’s busiest transportation hubs which made the gentleman’s office in one of the twin 22-story towers above the terminal an ideal location for his secret meeting. Vincent Astor, the fifty year old, fifth generation Land-Lord of New York and one of the wealthiest men alive, was about to meet with representatives of the F.B.I., the U.S. Army’s Military Intelligence Division, and the Navy’s Office of Naval Intelligence to discuss defending New York from Axis sabotage, espionage, and military offensives in the months before America’s entry into World War II. Two months earlier President Franklin D. Roosevelt had created a new position specifically for him and Astor had promised his life-long friend and Dutchess County neighbor that “In this job I shall do my very best.”

At 10:15, in Vincent Astor’s office at 50 Church St, across the street from the present day World Trade Center, the meeting began. Astor, as Area Controller of Intelligence for New York, brought the six other men to order and the meeting was underway. Names and dossiers of intelligence sources and informants were exchanged by the various agencies, briefings on supplies of food and fuel necessary to England’s war effort were made, and information on potential threats were disclosed, for this was Astor’s primary duty: make all intelligence operations in New York run as efficiently as the many business ventures the multi-millionaire had managed. Next he made arrangements for the Navy and Army to discuss the Axis’s finances with a representative of the American Express Company who had recently returned from the Nazi puppet regime in Vichy France. This was followed by a verbal report on conditions in North and West Africa. By 11:30 Astor’s office had emptied and he resumed his civilian duties of managing a vast business empire which included Chase National Bank, Western Union Telegraph Company, and entire blocks of New York real-estate. He would have to remember to review the Chase bank accounts of the AMTORG Corporation to note what military materials the Russian government was purchasing; particularly molybdenum, which was used in tank armor and when shown to the right military personnel, would give the President a good sense of Russia’s military strength.

This wasn’t Astor’s first assignment in the defense of America and like previous forays into national defense, he intended to use every resource available to him. Astor’s global business connections in banking, telecommunications, and shipping made him uniquely useful to the President. Without these connections Astor, an inactive Commander in the Naval Reserve, surely would not be coordinating America’s intelligence agencies while the nation was not even at war.

For some time the multi-millionaire had been providing housing in his luxurious Hotel St. Regis to England’s head of intelligence in North America, William Stephenson and had been using Ferry Reach, his estate in British held Bermuda, to illegally access international diplomatic messages. Just twelve days earlier, on May the 15th, Astor and Admiral Adolphus Andrews of the Third Naval District had hosted envoys from the navies of South and Central American aboard Astor’s palatial 263 foot yacht Nourmahal . Armed with movie stars, beautiful women, and Astor’s tremendous wealth, America’s alliance with Latin America had been further cemented. Three years earlier, Astor had sailed that same ship through the pacific with Kermit Roosevelt to gather intelligence for FDR on Japanese defenses in the Marshall Islands. Of course his fondest memories aboard the Nourmahal , were not related to America’s defense, but centered on the five fishing cruises he spent with the President.

Vincent Astor relished his duties even more due to the jealousy his espionage missions elicited from his friend President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who dreamed of retiring and writing detective novels. For fifty years the Dutchess County neighbors had been friends and in fact were distant cousins. FDR’s half-brother James R. Roosevelt had married Vincent’s Aunt Helen. As boys Astor and Roosevelt would vacation together at Lake St. Regis, and later Campobello with their friendship growing as the two boys turned to men. Even during the difficult years following Roosevelt’s affliction with polio; when he withdrew from the limelight, Astor was there for Roosevelt, lending him the use of his indoor pool at Astor Courts to help with FDR’s hydrotherapy treatments. To Astor, it was no surprise that he, a trusted, close and capable friend, would be appointed to a position so integral to the defense of America.

Coordinating America’s defenses was only one aspect of Vincent Astor’s duties. As he had done in World War I, when he hunted German submarines aboard his yacht the Noma , Astor wished to strike at the enemy, and again Astor’s business ventures afforded him the opportunity. In the Newsweek Building, Astor’s 43 story skyscraper at 444 Madison Avenue, Astor lent room 629 to his friends in the FBI. From this specially equipped room the FBI was monitoring the offices of William Sebold’s “Diesel Research Company” in rooms 627 and 628. The ”Diesel Research Company” was a front used by the Abwehr, Nazi Germany’s military intelligence agency, to distribute funds to secret agents in America. Unfortunately for the Nazis, William Sebold was a double-agent working with the FBI. Astor took solace in the fact that even now the FBI was using state of the art listening devices and hidden cameras to record the meetings between Sebold and thirty three Axis spies, including Fritz Duquesne the Nazi’s head operative in North America. Soon a crippling blow would be dealt to the Axis fifth column in America and New York would be safe from the German sabotage attacks that had shocked the city during the First World War.

For Astor, business and national defense went hand in hand. That is why in 1927, he had organized “The Room” in a small non-descript apartment at 34 East Sixty-Second street. “The Room” was an unofficial spy ring, comprised of bankers like J.P. Morgan, businessmen like Astor, and other prominent members of New York’s high society. For thirteen years this group of powerful New Yorkers had acted as informal advisors and economic spies for their close friend and fellow New Yorker, President Roosevelt. Astor’s tremendous wealth had caused both the Germans and British to court his favor before America’s entry into the war. Only a year earlier, wealthy German lawyer Gerhard Alois Westrick, who had had previous business dealings with America’s captains of industry had attempted to woo Astor and arrange close business connections between the U.S. and Nazi Germany in the event that Germany conquered Europe. Westrick, of course, reported directly to Nazi Foreign Minister Ribbentop. Similarly,  Astor’s wealth and power had prompted the British to request his assistance in acquiring one of American’s secret weapons: The Norden Bombsight. Just about one year earlier Astor had worked so hard to prevent that device from falling into the wrong hands. On that occasion he even had to order FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to send an agent to Europe, despite the fact that Astor had no authority to issue such an order and despite likelihood that it would cause an international incident.

Despite his pressing business responsibilities, Vincent Astor’s first loyalty was to his old friend and fishing companion Franklin D. Roosevelt. It had been a month since his last trip to the White House and in only six days the Area Controller of New York was scheduled to report to the President. This friendship, combined with deep roots in New York, would drive the aging gentleman to devote himself to the defense of New York City, much as his love of the city had driven him to care for the city’s poor through making generous donations to housing projects, libraries, parks, and hospitals.

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Vincent Astor's yacht the USS Nourmahal, San Pedro, 1936

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A Guest Book, from Vincent Astor's motor yacht Nourmahal, a vessel built for him by Friederich Krupp Germaniawerft, A.G., Kiel, Germany, and delivered in 1928 entries ranging from 1937 to 1941 Description, catalogue note. Share full article Advertisement Supported by THE ASTOR YACHT NOURMAHAL ALSO A FLOATING LABORATORY; The Ship Upon Which the President-Elect Cruises Has Made Long Voyages in the Interest of Science WHILE pleasure, not Science, as often before, is the objective of Vincent Astor's yacht Nourmahal, now cruising around the Bahamas, the fact that President-elect Roosevelt is on board with a party of friends lends special interest to the voyage of the vessel -- virtually a small liner. View Full Article in Timesmachine » William Vincent Astor's yacht Nourmahal passing a lighthouse with the fleet beyond More from maritime. Vincent Astor: Yachting Spy Post author By Mike Nova Post date March 13, 2024 In Part One of Gentleman Spy, we described how Vincent Astor and his well heeled friends leveraged their wealth, social standing and global connections into an adjunct espionage service to what, in the 1930s, was still a relatively primitive U.S. intelligence apparatus. Today, we pick up the story with Astor venturing into the Pacific aboard his super-yacht, Nourmahal, to spy out Japanese activity in the Marshall Islands. 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 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ , the 263-foot ship was over-the-top in both luxury and technology for its time.  It was built by the Krupp Iron Works, which would later turn out U-boats, in Kiel, Germany, Astor occasionally used the Nourmahal (Persian for “light of the palace”—or, more playfully, “harem’) to host monthly meetings of “The Room,”  a small, tightly knit group of powerful, well-connected men —no women—who met in secret to share intelligence garnered from New York’s social whirl, travel, and business dealings.  With 11 state rooms and a crew of more than 40, the “Nourmy,” as Astor’s guests called it, also sometimes hosted his friend, patron and, beginning in 1933, President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Not all the cruises were social, however.  In 1938 Astor and Kermit Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s son, undertook a reconnaissance mission under cover of scientific expedition to surveil Japan’s military activity on the Marshall Islands. Outfitted with a radio on loan from the U.S. Navy,  they were to report on things like docks, fuel depots, and airstrips.  Astor seemed nearly giddy on the eve of his spy mission.   “I don’t want to make you jealous, but aren’t you a bit envious of my trip ?” he wrote the president. “My deportment in the Marshalls will be perfect,” he went on. “When and if, however, there is something that deserves taking a chance—or if I notice increasing suspicion or resentment, I would like to be able to send a ‘standby’ message to Samoa or Hawaii.” The emergency signal would be the word, “automobile.” Aspiring secret agent Astor welcome his friend and new President Franklin Roosevelt aboard the Nourmahal in August 1933 The mission, not altogether successful, did yield some intelligence, according to ONI historian Jeffery M. Dorwart . Although unable to get close enough to the targets for visual accounts, Astor intercepted radio signals from Eniwetok Atoll confirming it as a principal Japanese naval base and Bikini a secondary. Conversations with British officials supplemented his reports. It would be among the last of the long voyagers for Astor on the Nourmahal. Like his previous yacht, the Noma, the ship would see service in the war effort, commissioned into the fleet of the U.S. Coast Guard in 1940, then the U.S. Navy in 1942.  When the State Department got wind of Astor’s back channel arrangement, the flow of intelligence was temporarily halted. It resumed with the 1940 arrival of William Stephenson (famously known as Intrepid) , head of the British Security Coordination (BSC), and his American-born wife, Mary. Astor personally invited Stephenson to lodge at the St. Regis, the luxurious and technically advanced hotel—telephones in every room and an early version of air conditioning— founded in 1904 by his father, John Jacob Astor IV , one of the richest men of his time, who had died in the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. The invitation, puckishly derided the luxury hotel as a “broken down boarding house.” Despite the anodyne name, the British Security Coordination would eventually grow into one of the largest and wide-ranging clandestine intelligence operations of the war. With FDR’s secret approval, the BSC was going to help nudge Americans into supporting Britain’s desperate defiance of the Nazis. Stephenson’s aggressively vague remit allowed him to launch operations that ranged from traditional intelligence-gathering via secretly recruited agents to highly creative black propaganda efforts. Among the BSC operations Stephenson oversaw were honey traps, safe-cracking in embassies, planting stories in the press, and even a high-profile publicity tour by an astrologer who predicted American victory in the war. On February 4, 1941, Stephenson wired back to London, “President has appointed Vincent Astor as his personal liaison with me…This arrangement is a great step forward and should considerably facilitate our efforts…”  The post Vincent Astor: Yachting Spy first appeared on JOSSICA – The Journal of the Open Source Strategic Intelligence and Counterintelligence Analysis . Where next? Explore related content The USS Nourmahal Naval history and heritage command 1943-01-01, u.s. national archives united states. 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Bracklow, Robert L., 1849-1919 Alland, Alexander John Jacob Astor IV's yacht 'Nourmahal' at the Ocean Races (Americas Cup?), September 7, 1895. 5 in. x 7 in. nyhs_pr-008_66000_1521 Yacht racing--New York (State)--New York--Photographs Astor, John Jacob, 1864-1912 New York (N.Y.)--Photographs Glass negative Negatives (photographic) This digital image may be used for educational or scholarly purposes without restriction. Commercial and other uses of the item are prohibited without prior written permission from the New-York Historical Society. For more information, please visit the New-York Historical Society's Rights and Reproductions Department web page at  http://www.nyhistory.org/about/rights-reproductions Newspapers & Gazettes South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900) View title info Thu 28 Apr 1898 Prev issue Next issue Browse issues Page 6 Prev page Next page Browse pages MR. ASTOR'S YACHT—THE NOURMAHAL. 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Con CFP Zanardelli e Ferretti Group percorsi per operatori nautici Domenica 8 Settembre 2024 Barche a motore Barche a vela Barche Green Barche Classiche e d'Epoca Corsi, Master e Seminari Gommoni, Tender e Gozzi Le professioni del mare Libri, manuali e portolani Motori marini Navi militari Normative, Assicurazioni e Fisco Patente nautica Pesca sportiva Porti, Shipping e Logistica Ricette in barca Sostenibilita' Sport acquatici Tecnica e manutenzione Tecnologia e Design a bordo Turismo e ormeggi Vita subacquea Yacht Club Storici Turismo e Ormeggi Bellini Nautica: per Bellini Yacht ASTOR 36 primo test in acqua e presentazione al Cannes Yachting Festival Bellini Nautica comunica il successo del primo test in acqua dell'ASTOR 36, il primo modello di imbarcazione a marchio Bellini Yacht Sec & Partners 06/09/2024 11:00 Clusane d’Iseo (BS), 5 settembre 2024 Bellini Nautica S.p.A. (la “ Società ” o “ Bellini Nautica ” o “ Emittente ”, BELL.MI – ISIN IT0005497042), realtà fondata nel 1967 e a capo di un gruppo (il “ Gruppo Bellini ”) operante nel settore della nautica di lusso e specializzata nella produzione di imbarcazioni a marchio Bellini Yacht, nonché nel trading di imbarcazioni (nuove e usate), nel restauro e trading di “Vintage Riva” e nell’offerta di un’ampia gamma di servizi correlati, comunica il successo del primo test in acqua dell' ASTOR 36 , il primo modello di imbarcazione a marchio Bellini Yacht messo sul mercato dal Gruppo Bellini. Il test è stato effettuato sul Lago d'Iseo, luogo di nascita del Gruppo Bellini, nonché culla della divisione di produzione. Le performance registrate durante i test hanno pienamente soddisfatto le aspettative, confermando l'eccellenza ingegneristica e il design innovativo. La carena dell'ASTOR 36, progettata da Brunello Acampora , designer e progettista di imbarcazioni di fama internazionale, si è dimostrata estremamente stabile e performante, sottolineando ancora una volta la professionalità e la specializzazione di Acampora nell'ingegnerizzazione del prodotto oltre che nel design. Il modello ha evidenziato una scia pulita e offre un'esperienza di navigazione più confortevole e asciutta. Le strutture critiche realizzate appositamente in fibra di carbonio, hanno garantito una stabilità ottimale e leggerezza dello scafo, consentendo all'ASTOR 36 di raggiungere una velocità massima di 42 nodi . Anche in fase di virata, l'imbarcazione ha mostrato un comportamento pulito e stabile, confermando la precisione del suo design. Con una configurazione che porta il peso effettivo dell'imbarcazione a vuoto di 7,3 tonnellate, l'ASTOR 36 si distingue come un modello capace di combinare potenza, eleganza e performance con un equilibrio perfetto. La configurazione monta 2 motori benzina Volvo Penta V8 da 350 cavalli con la possibilità di montare, in alternativa, 2 motori diesel da 300 cavalli. Bellini Yacht si prepara a presentare al pubblico l’ ASTOR 36 al prossimo Cannes Yachting Festival , dal 10 al 15 settembre 2024. Lo stand sarà il nr.105 presso l'area Palais Tender. Brunello Acampora afferma: “ I dati raccolti durante le prime prove dell’Astor 36 confermano pienamente tutte le premesse progettuali. La carena a V profonda, sviluppata grazie a una serie di studi sistematici e all’esperienza trentennale dei tecnici Victory, è stata concepita per garantire consumi ridotti e prestazioni sportive di alto livello, offrendo un'esperienza di guida dinamica, ma allo stesso tempo semplice e piacevole. Il marchio Bellini Yacht meritava una barca stabile, sicura, asciutta e capace di affrontare il mare mosso con morbidezza, e questo obiettivo è stato raggiunto sin dal primo test ”. Battista Bellini , Amministratore delegato del Gruppo afferma: “ Nel nostro team, alla profonda esperienza nella costruzione di imbarcazioni e una lunga tradizione nautica si combinano l'ingegneria e la matematica per fare un ulteriore passo avanti volto a offrire un'esperienza di navigazione sempre migliore ai nostri futuri armatori. Astor 36 è un 36 piedi di tipologia walkaround open che combina funzionalità con un design essenziale e intelligente. Lo yacht è un 11,30 metri fuoritutto di lunghezza e 3,90 metri di larghezza. Il progetto è frutto della collaborazione tra Norberto Ferretti, fondatore del Gruppo Ferretti e leader nella progettazione, costruzione e commercializzazione di yacht di fascia alta che combinano innovazione, eleganza e tecnologia all'avanguardia , in qualità di “Product Concept Manager” e Brunello Acampora , fondatore dello studio di engineering e design “Victory Design”. bellininautica.it Giulio Trussoni Sec & Partners About Bellini Nautica Bellini Nautica, fondata nel 1967, anche attraverso le sue controllate, opera nel settore della nautica di lusso come produttore di imbarcazioni a marchio Bellini Yacht e nel trading di imbarcazioni (sia nuove che usate), con un dipartimento dedicato al restauro e alla commercializzazione di "Vintage Riva" e un'unità che offre servizi di rimessaggio e assistenza portuale. Il Gruppo Bellini valorizza la ricerca estetica con un forte legame con l'arte, testimoniato da importanti collaborazioni con artisti internazionali. Il Gruppo Bellini offre un’ampia gamma di servizi, tra cui attività di refitting e verniciatura, trasporto barche, noleggio, consulenza, assistenza meccanica e manutenzione. Inoltre, vende accessori, oggetti da collezione, abbigliamento nautico e organizza esperienze in barca sul lago d'Iseo con conducente. La sede principale si trova a Clusane d'Iseo (BS), sulle sponde del lago d'Iseo, dove sono situati anche il cantiere, le strutture di rimessaggio interno ed esterno, l’officina meccanica e i piazzali per refitting e manutenzioni. La sede produttiva è ubicata a Corte Franca, in Franciacorta. Il Puig Vela Clàssica conclude la sua XVII edizione, assicurando la sua eredità... INEOS Britannia alla Louis Vuitton Cup contro Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli ha mostrato... 2026 Golden Globe Race - Due anni al via ! Bellini Nautica: per Bellini Yacht ASTOR 36 primo test in acqua e presentazione al... 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Tribunale di Roma n.314 - 27-12-2013 - Editore Carlo Alessandrelli - Un marchio Wave Promotion srls - P.Iva: 12411241008 REDAZIONE E MEDIA KIT LAVORA CON NOI 292 IMAGES The palatial yacht "Nourmahal," owned by New York financier and real The Nourmahal, owned by the Vincent Astors until it was taken into war SY Nourmahal, the steam yacht of JJ Astor IV. His father, William The Nourmahal probably not too long after delivery, from a publicity view John Jacob Astor’s steam yacht “Nourmahal”. : Lot 161 John Jacob Astor IV's yacht 'Nourmahal' at the Ocean Races (Americas VIDEO 🔴(Live) Harman Jarman 🔴(Live) Balraj Bilga PAKISTAN KA NOOR MAHAL Новоиерусалимский монастырь на реке Истра Большое путешествие на машине по Ростову-на Дону. Тимур и Артур. / Арстайл / இவ்வளவு Power ஆ 💥MG brings strong hybrid in new Astor 2024 to take on CRETA SELTOS VITARA! COMMENTS USS Nourmahal The Nourmahal was originally built as a yacht for multi-millionaire Vincent Astor in 1928 at Krupp Iron Works in Kiel, Germany.This was the third Astor family yacht to bear the name, replacing a smaller Nourmahal designed by Cox & Stevens, Inc. and built by Robert Jacob Shipyard, City Island NY., launched March, 1921. [2] [3] Astor was the heir to a large New York real estate fortune after his ... Vincent Astor, Yachting Spy 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 ... Vincent Astor's yacht the USS Nourmahal, San Pedro, 1936 Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.The Nourmahal sits in the middle of the ocean with a couple of smaller boats in the water around it.Similar photograph appears on a photo page with the headline, "Nourmahalhere to embark on exploration cruize," Los Angeles Times, 05 Feb 1936: 8.Text from negative sleeve: 3561 - Vincent Astor's Nourmahal- Diesel Yacht.- [stamped ... Vincent Astor, Gentleman Spy President Franklin D. Roosevelt and a party of close friends leave Poughkeepsie, N.Y., aboard Vincent Astor's palatial yacht Nourmahal, for a cruise at sea, Aug. 31, 1933. Nourmahal Nourmahal (PG-72), a yacht built in 1928 by the Krupp Iron Works, Kiel, Germany, was acquired by the Navy from William Vincent Astor by bareboat charter agreement 3 March 1942, to be operated under Navy ownership by the Coast Guard.She was designated Nourmahal (PG-72) 9 April 1943 and purchased by the Navy 29 June in accordance with an option in the original charter agreement. Socialite, and Spy Master: Vincent Astor, FDR's Area Controller of Just twelve days earlier, on May the 15th, Astor and Admiral Adolphus Andrews of the Third Naval District had hosted envoys from the navies of South and Central American aboard Astor's palatial 263 foot yacht Nourmahal. Armed with movie stars, beautiful women, and Astor's tremendous wealth, America's alliance with Latin America had been ... Vincent Astor's yacht the USS Nourmahal, San Pedro, 1936 Text from negative sleeve: 3561 - Vincent Astor's Nourmahal- Diesel Yacht.- [stamped:] Feb 7- 1936. Text from newspaper caption: Vincent Astor's palatial yacht Nourmahal as she reated in the waters at San Pedro yesterday afrter her arrival from New York. Astor will arrive here February 14, to embark on two-month's cruise in equatorial waters ... Vincent Astor The USS Nourmahal PG-72, Astor's yacht outfitted for War. The special friendship between Franklin and Vincent would play a role in Astor's duties. Kermit Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt, member of The Room and The Nourmahal Gang, as well as FDR's distant cousin was prone to scandalous activity. In one particular instance ... The Roosevelt-Astor Espionage Ring most influential members—Astor, Kermit Roosevelt, Stewart and Judge Kernochan. The bond was forged aboard Astor's magnificent motor yacht, the Nourmahal, where the four adventurers, often accompanied by sportsman George St. George and several other cronies, spent long hours drinking, gambling, fishing, "frumping" and pursuing amorous adven ture. 'Roosevelt's Secret War' The letterhead read simply Nourmahal, the name of Astor's yacht. The very word suffused FDR with warm memories. He had first sailed the Nourmahal in 1932 while still president-elect. The luxurious ... PG-72 Nourmahal Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships History: Nourmahal (PG-72), a yacht built in 1928 by the Krupp Iron Works, Kiel, Germany, was acquired by the Navy from William Vincent Astor by bareboat charter agreement 3 March 1942, to be operated under Navy ownership by the Coast Guard.She was designated Nourmahal (PG-72) 9 April 1943 and purchased by the Navy 29 June in accordance with an ... Galapagueana The USS Nourmahal was a ship of about 80 m in length, built in 1928 as a pleasure yacht for the American billionaire Vincent Astor at the Krupp shipyard in Kiel, Germany. She was the third Astor family yacht to bear that name (which in Hindi means "Light of the Palace" and belongs to the heroine of a poem in Lalla Rookh , a novel by Thomas ... A Guest Book, from Vincent Astor's motor yacht Nourmahal, a vessel Astor used the Nourmahal for pleasure, exploration, and philanthropy, and frequently entertained President Franklin D. Roosevelt on board. In 1940 Astor leased the yacht, for $1, to the Coast Guard effective August 21st 1940 for service as a weather station vessel. In 1942, she was transferred to the Navy and then sold to the Navy the following year. The first entry in the log are from the ... THE ASTOR YACHT NOURMAHAL ALSO A FLOATING LABORATORY; The Ship Upon WHILE pleasure, not Science, as often before, is the objective of Vincent Astor's yacht Nourmahal, now cruising around the Bahamas, the fact that President-elect Roosevelt is on board with a party ... Nourmahal, 1940 (WPG-72) > United States Coast Guard > All Nourmahal (PG-72), a yacht built in 1928 by the Krupp Iron Works, Kiel, Germany, was first received from William Vincent Astor on 21 August 1940 for service as a weather station vessel in the Coast Guard Reserve fleet. She was reconditioned at the Coast Guard Yard from 22 September through 1 December 1941 and was then assigned to New York. William Vincent Astor's yacht Nourmahal passing a lighthouse with the William Vincent Astor's yacht Nourmahal was built in 1928 at the Krupp Iron Works in Kiel, Germany, presumably as a replacement for Astor's previous yacht Noma. In April, 1930, Astor took a group of scientists to Galapagos aboard the yacht, and made several additional visits over the next few years. Vincent Astor: Yachting Spy Share In Part One of Gentleman Spy, we described how Vincent Astor and his well heeled friends leveraged their wealth, social standing and global connections into an adjunct espionage service to what, in the 1930s, was still a relatively primitive U.S. intelligence apparatus. Today, we pick up the story with Astor venturing into the Pacific aboard The USS Nourmahal Astor's yacht Nourmahal was donated for military service during World War II. USS NOURMAHAL (PG-72) at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, circa 1943. She later became USCGC NOURMAHAL (WPG-122.) Image Courtesy of U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. Catalog #: 26-G-4431. Details. Aboard Vincent Astor's yacht "Nourmahal," President Roosevelt arrived The End, US President, USA, Washington DC, Washington Navy Yard, Yacht, Aboard Vincent Astor's yacht "Nourmahal," President Roosevelt arrived at the Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. ending his summer vacation. Photo shows Vincent Astor and President Roosevelt. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images. John Jacob Astor IV's yacht 'Nourmahal' at the Ocean Races ... John Jacob Astor IV's yacht 'Nourmahal' at the Ocean Races (Americas Cup?), September 7, 1895. Series. Robert L. Bracklow photograph collection, 1882-1918 (bulk 1896-1905) In Collection(s) Robert L. Bracklow photograph collection, 1882-1918 (bulk 1896-1905) Descriptive Metadata Details. 28 Apr 1898 The steam-yacht which the American millionaire, Mr. J. J. Astor, has presented to the Washington Government is named tho Nourmahal. ... SA : 1839 - 1900), Thu 28 Apr 1898, Page 6 - MR. ASTOR'S YACHT—THE NOURMAHAL. You have corrected this article This article has been corrected by You and other Voluntroves This article has been corrected by ... MaritimeQuest Col. John Jacob Astor's steam yacht Nourmahal, date and location unknown. Yacht Index. Complete Vessel Index. Message Board. Recent Updates. 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