What is the name of the steam yacht, owned by the National Trust, which offers cruises on Coniston Water?
Coniston Water leg of the Three Lakes Challenge. The steam yacht "Gondola" tours the lake in the summer months, along with two smaller motorised launches. Boats can be hired from the lakeside near the steam yacht, with various sizes of boat for hire, from small canoes and kayaks to large personal craft. Along with Ullswater and Derwentwater, Coniston Water has a mandatory waterspeed limit of . This is suspended temporarily for boats attempting new world waterspeed records during Records Week, usually the first week in November. Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poem "Coniston Water" illustrates a plate entitled "Coniston Water from Nebthwaite, Lancashire." Coniston
Coniston Water surrounding land. Copper mining continued in the area until the 19th century. The lake was formerly known as ""Thurston Water"", a name derived from the Old Norse personal name 'Thursteinn' + Old English 'waeter'. This name was used as an alternative to Coniston Water until the late 18th century. The Victorian artist and philosopher John Ruskin owned Brantwood House on the eastern shore of the lake, and lived in it from 1872 until his death in 1900. Ruskin is buried in the churchyard in the village of Coniston, at the northern end of the lake. His secretary the antiquarian W.