Document No 4312: Defender

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AUTEUR : Nath. L. Stebbins

REF : 0

EDITION : 1895

DATE : 07 Sep 1895 - 15:30

COURSE : 1

DESCRIPTION SITE :

First America's Cup race between Defender & Valkyrie III, Defender wonDefender, designed and built in 1895 by N. G. Herreshoff to defend the America's Cup against Valkyrie III. Her bottom was polished bronze, but her topsides, deck beams, and some of her deck framing were aluminum (making her a giant battery with electrolys).

NOTES AMERICA-SCOOP :

DEFENDER WINS THE FIRST CUP RACE; Defeated the Valkyrie by 8 Minutes 49 Seconds in a Beat to Windward and Back. OUTSAILED THE ENGLISHMAN AT EVERY POINT The American Boat Led in the Thrash to Windward by 3 Minutes 23 Seconds.

September 07, 1895- The first of the series of races between the Defender and the Valkyrie for the America's Cup was sailed outside of Sandy Hook yesterday in a light breeze, and an "old sea" of considerable weight. The course was from a point off Seabright, N.J., fifteen miles to windward, east by south, and return...

LICENCE :
Public domain

BATEAUX : DEFENDER
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SITE LARG HAUT ADRESSE
Historic New England 850 673 http://www.historicnewengland.org/collections-archives-exhibitions/collections-access/collection-object/capobject?gusn=GUSN-278795&searchterm=defender