The steam yacht Avalanche ((length 46 feet, beam 9 feet, depth 4 feet 6 inches, draught forward 2 feet 10 inches, draft aft 4 feet 2 inches) built by Halliday and fitted with one two cylinder 9-inch by 9-inch stroke inverted vertical marine engine operating at 280 revolutions per minute with steam supplied at 50 pounds per square inch, and one eight bladed propeller 3 feet 6 inches in diameter with a 5 foot pitch, built by Messrs. C. A. Day and Co. of Southampton for Messrs. Thornton of East Cowes. The owner sat in the stern steering and working his own engines, and obtaining all the pleasure which English yachting gentle-men are so fully alive to, of doing things with their own hands. The dirty portion of the work, of stoking, sweeping tubes & c., is done by a fireman forward.