Built in 1923 for financier E. F. Hutton and christened Hussar (the fourth of Hutton's yachts to bear that name), she was legendary for her first-rate appointments. Sold in the 1930s to a private owner, the barquentine was eventually acquired by Columbia University. While accumulating over 1-1/4 million mi beneath her sails during research expeditions to far-flung worldwide destinations, crews gathered evidence to confirm the theory of the continental drift. Windjammer acquired her in 1982.