Over the Seven Seas Part II

William K. Vanderbilt II (Jr.), his wife Rosamund, his friends Mr. and Mrs. Earle Smith and crew set on a world cruise in 1931 aboard his beautiful 265-foot yacht Alva. They departed Long Island and traveled through the Panama Canal to the Galapagos Islands, the Society Islands, Samoa, Australia, Java, Bora Bora, Bali, Singapore, Ceylon, Arabia, through the Suez Canal to Cairo, Athens and Monte Carlo and westward across the Atlantic to America.

The cruise was documented in a seventy-minute film Over the Seas which opened in December 1932 in New York City. It is the only known record of Willie K. 's voice. The film is available at the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum with all rights reserved. Highlights of the film are shown on VanderbiltCupRaces.com with permission of the Museum. These highlights are shown in two parts.

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• Galapagos
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• Panama Canal