If anyone is interested enough to do a Google on this, they'll have a much better chance of success if they spell the names right. The yacht ONEIDA was once owned by William RANDOLPH Hurst. There have been a lot of vessels named Oneida, which is the name of an Indian nation, associated with the Iroquois tribe of North America. There was an earlier Oneida built in 1883 as Utowana, an unusual though not unattractive steam powered schooner. This one vanished from Lloyd's List sometime in the 1920s, after which Mr Hurst, on whom the film Citizen Kane was fairly loosely based, presumably had another Oneida built. I have several books on steam yachts, which list loads of info on the 1883 Utowana/Oneida, but nothing on the later version, which makes me wonder if it was motor rather than steam driven. No doubt someone with more patience than me, or a more extensive library, will come up with something.
