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The Emperor of Russia's Steam-Yacht "Peterhoff", 1850. 'We regret to announce that the splendid steam-yacht...which was built in this country a few months since, expressly for the Emperor of Russia, has been entirely lost on her passage out to St. Petersburgh..."We had no sooner left the island [of Bornholm] than it blew a perfect hurricane, and continued blowing...we were startled by a terrific rumbling noise. We immediately ran on deck; when, to our horror, we found the Peterhoff half her length up a shallow reef of rocks. She immediately began to fill, and was not long before the water inside her was level with the sea". Very trying weather has since set in, and the last accounts speak of her loss. It is said that the navigation of the Baltic at this period of the year, with a northerly wind, is attended with much difficulty...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.