Meteor was the third Imperial German royal yacht of that name to be owned by German Emperor Wilhelm II (1859–1941, reigned 1888–1918). It was a schooner designed by A. Carey Smith and H. G. Barbey and built at the Townsend & Downey shipyard on Shooters Island off Newark Bay and the North Shore of Staten Island, on the western coast of Upper New York Bay / New York Harbor.
Meteor was the third Imperial German royal yacht of that name to be owned by German Emperor Wilhelm II (1859–1941, reigned 1888–1918). It was a schooner designed by A. Carey Smith and H. G. Barbey and built at the Townsend & Downey shipyard on Shooters Island off Newark Bay and the North Shore of Staten Island, on the western coast of Upper New York Bay / New York Harbor.
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