Document No 4315: Defender at launching | |||||||||||||||
REF : 0 EDITION : 1895 DATE : 29 Jun 1895 COURSE : 0 DESCRIPTION SITE : Defender, 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 :LICENCE : Public domain |
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BATEAUX : DEFENDER | |||||||||||||||
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