Name/Title
Steamer Majestic, Originally Named Happy DayEntry/Object ID
2017.2.006Description
HAPPY DAY (1903)
Year Built: 1903 (Seized by the courts for financial reasons and not completed until late 1904.)
Built By: Crescent Shipyard
Built At: Elizabeth, NJ
Built For: Charles Schwab, President, Unites States Steel Corp.
Official Number: 96688
Purchase Price: $135,000
Length: 201.8 feet
Beam: 30.0 feet
Depth of Hold: 10.0 feet
Gross Tons: 717 gross, 518 net
Propulsion: Sidewheel
Hull: Steel
Engine: 750 hp
Passenger Capacity: 1,000
Purchased by: Potomac and Chesapeake Steamboat Company in 1916 from New York parties, Maryland State Roads Commission in 1923, Ideal Amusement & Excursion Company in 1927
Route: Washington, DC to Nomini Creek, VA, Claiborne to Annapolis, Baltimore Excursions
Captains: Captain R. B. Reed in 1916
Previous Name:
Later Name: MAJESTIC
Comments: 1903, 24 January; The Gloucester County Times of Woodbury, NJ reported that Charles M. Schwab, President of United States Steel Corporation, has bought a seaside resort, Richmond Beach on Staten Island, for the poor children of New York City. The steamboat Happy Day is being built at Crescent Shipyard in Elizabeth, NJ to carry the youngsters to and from their playground.
1903, 7 August; The Courier-News of Bridgewater, NJ reported that five vessels being built at Crescent Shipyard were siezed by court order for money owed to a local lumber merchant. The largest levy is on Happy Day.
Disposition: Sank in July 23, 1927 in unusual circumstances while operating as an excursion boat coming into Baltimore Harbor. Raised and converted into a barge.
