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The second boat built for the defense of the America's Cup in 1914 was for Alexander Smith Cochran, formerly the owner of the schooner Westward, which raced so successfully in English waters in 1910.
This boat has been designed by William Gardner, a New York naval architect with long experience both in the designing and construction of racing yachts.
Some of the best known American yachts are from his board, such as the schooner Atlantic, which won the German Emperor's Cup in the ocean race of 1905, establishing a new record for a transAtlantic sailing passage; the Irondequoit, Liris, Medora, and many other boats that have made enviable records for themselves. 
This yacht is being built at George Lawley & Son's, East Boston, and is expected to be 
launched early in May. Her name is Vanitie.May 14, 1914 - The launching of the America's Cup defense fleet of 75-foot sloops was completed to-day when Alexander Smith Cochran's bronze Vanitie was put into the water.
For the selection of the defender, the boats will be raced throughout the summer, about 35 races being already scheduled before trial races that will be held off Newport, between August 15th and 22nd.
The first of the preliminary races was be held on June 2nd with only two of the contenders, Vanitie and Resolute, at the line. On the Sound off Greenwich, Vanitie beats Resolute easily by 16 minutes and 48 seconds.
| Date | Race | Course | First | Second | by | Third | by | Score | ||
| Defiance | Resolute | Vanitie | ||||||||
| June 2nd, 1914 | Sound | Triangle 30 miles | Vanitie | Resolute | 16' 48" | Defiance | DNS | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| June 3rd, 1914 | Sound | AR 15 miles x 2 | Resolute | Vanitie | 0' 11" | Defiance | DNS | 2 | 7 | 7 |
| June 4rd, 1914 | Sound | AR 9 miles x 2 | Resolute | Vanitie | DNF | Defiance | DNS | 3 | 12 | 9 |
| June 6th, 1914 | Fletcher Cup | Triangle 15 miles x 2 | Vanitie | Resolute | 2' 40" | Defiance | DNS | 4 | 14 | 14 |
| June 10th, 1914 | Sandy Hook | AR 30 miles | Resolute | Vanitie | 7' 29" | Defiance | DNF | 5 | 19 | 16 |
| June 11th, 1914 | Sandy Hook | Triangle 30 miles | Resolute | Vanitie | 1' 16" | Defiance | DNS | 6 | 24 | 18 |
| June 12th, 1914 | Sandy Hook | Triangle 30 miles | Resolute | Vanitie | 6' 02" | Defiance | DNS | 7 | 29 | 20 |
| June 23th, 1914 | Sound | Triangle 15 miles x 2 | Resolute | Vanitie | 16' 20" | Defiance | 20' 12" | 8 | 34 | 22 |
| June 25th, 1914 | Sound | AR 24,5 miles | Resolute | Defiance | 3' 14" | Vanitie | 8' 03" | 10 | 39 | 23 |
| June 26th, 1914 | Sound | Triangle 30,5 miles | Resolute | Vanitie | 5' 03" | Defiance | 10' 10" | 11 | 44 | 25 |
| June 27th, 1914 | Sound | Triangle 15 miles x 2 | Vanitie | Defiance | 7' 42" | Resolute | DNS | 13 | 45 | 30 |
| June 29th, 1914 | Fletcher Cup | Triangle 15 miles x 2 | Vanitie | Defiance | 15' 44" | Resolute | DNS | 15 | 46 | 35 |
| July 9th, 1914 | Brenton's Reef | AR 30 miles | Resolute | Vanitie | 1' 19" | Defiance | DNF | 16 | 51 | 37 |
| July 10th, 1914 | Brenton's Reef | Triangle 30 miles | Resolute | Vanitie | 33' 07" | Defiance | DNF | 17 | 56 | 39 |
| July 11th, 1914 | Block Island | AR 30 miles | Vanitie | Defiance | 0' 19" | Resolute | DNF | 19 | 57 | 44 |
| July 18th, 1914 | Brenton's Reef | AR 14 miles x 2 | Resolute | Vanitie | 0' 53" | Defiance | 1' 56" | 20 | 62 | 46 |
| July 31th, 1914 | Glen Cove | 35 miles journey | Resolute | Vanitie | 14' 05" | Defiance | DNS | 21 | 67 | 48 |
| August 1st, 1914 | -> New London | 54 miles journey | Resolute | Vanitie | 5' 35" | Defiance | DNS | 22 | 72 | 50 |
| August 3rd, 1914 | -> Newport | 40 miles journey | Resolute | Vanitie | 2' 11" | Defiance | DNS | 23 | 77 | 52 |
| August 4rd, 1914 | Vincent Astor Cup | Triangle 38 miles | Resolute | Vanitie | 5' 19" | Defiance | DNS | 24 | 82 | 54 |
On August 5, 1914 the New York Yacht Club's Summer cruise was declared off upon receipt of the news that England had declared war on Germany. Sir Thomas Lipton had telephoned the Associated Press that on account of the declaration war by Great Britain, he has withdrawn his yacht from Cup race. Resolute will then be towed to Bristol and hauled out. Vanitie will towed to Lawley's Yard in Neponsit, where she was built, and laid up. The America's Cup was postponed and did not resume until 1920.
May 28, 1915 - Sir Thomas Lipton, whose yacht Shamrock IV. is laid up in Brooklyn, does not regard with favor the proposed renewal of the trials this Summer between the cup defending candidates, Resolute and Vanitie, according to letters recently received by friends in this city.
| Date | Race | Course | First | Second | by | Score | |
| Resolute | Vanitie | ||||||
| July 3rd, 1915 | Sound | 19.25 miles | Resolute | Vanitie | 1' 08" | 1 | 0 |
| July 5th, 1915 | Larchmont Y.C. Regatta | 28 miles | Vanitie | Resolute | 3' 05" | 1 | 1 |
| July 7th, 1915 | Sound | Triangle 30 miles | Resolute | Vanitie | 2' 17" | 2 | 1 |
| July 9th, 1915 | Seawanhaka Y.C. | 15¼ miles x 2 | Resolute | Vanitie | DNF | 3 | 1 |
| July 11th, 1915 | N.Y.Y.C. Race | 25½ miles | Resolute | Vanitie | 4' 48" | 4 | 1 |
| July 13th, 1915 | Sandy Hook | 15 miles x 2 | Resolute | Vanitie | 5' 27" | 5 | 1 |
| July 14th, 1915 | Sandy Hook | 10 miles x 3 | Resolute | Vanitie | 0' 52" | 6 | 1 |
| July 15th, 1915 | Sandy Hook | 15 miles x 2 | Resolute | Vanitie | 1' 30" | 7 | 1 |
| July 17th, 1915 | Larchmont Regatta | 28 miles | Resolute | Vanitie | 27' 18" | 8 | 1 |
| July 26th, 1915 | Newport | 14 miles x 2 | Resolute | Vanitie | 5' 04" | 9 | 1 |
| August 3rd, 1915 | N.Y.Y.C. Cruise | 40 miles | Vanitie | Resolute | DNF" | 9 | 2 |
| August 5th, 1915 | Astor Cup | 37½ miles | Resolute | Vanitie | 1' 08" | 10 | 2 |
| August 6th, 1915 | Newport Race | 33 miles | Vanitie | Resolute | 9' 31" | 10 | 3 |
| August 7th, 1915 | Marblehead Race | 32 miles | Resolute | Vanitie | 20' 18" | 11 | 3 |
| August 10th, 1915 | N.Y.Y.C. Cruise | 24 miles | Resolute | Vanitie | 5' 16" | 12 | 3 |
| August 11th, 1915 | King Cup | 36 miles | Resolute | Vanitie | 5' 31" | 13 | 3 |
For the 1915 series of defender trials, the Resolute wins 13 races and the Vanitie only 3, with 1 DNF for each yacht.
April 30, 1916 - The America's Cup defenders Resolute and Vanitie definitely out of commission for the season 1916 and the challenger, Shamrock IV, boxed up in a dock at Brooklyn, awaiting the end of the European war.
February 1st, 1920 - Rear Commodore George Nichols, New York Yacht Club, is to sail the sloop Vanitie in the trial races against Resolute this Spring for the right to defend the America's Cup. Rear Commodore Nichols did not seek the honor of sailing Vanitie. It was forced upon him. In 1914 he was a member of the after-deck war council of Resolute. When Alexander Smith Cochran gave his sloop to the club, it was imperative that someone should have command of the craft, and the Cup Committee of the club asked Rear Commodore Nichols to race the boat. Believing that Vanitie had an excellent chance of being chosen, Commodore Nichols consented to take charge of the yacht.
Commodore Nichols will have full charge of Vanitie. Already he has picked his sailing master and has invited several prominent yachtsmen to serve as the after-deck crew. Sherman Hoyt, another well-known racing member of the New York Yacht Club, will help Rear Commodore Nichols sail Vanitie.
| Date | Race | Course | First | Second | by | Score | |
| Resolute | Vanitie | ||||||
| June 3rd, 1920 | Newport | 14 miles x 2 | Resolute | Vanitie | 5' 39" | 1 | 0 |
| June 7th, 1920 | Newport | 30 miles triangle | Vanitie | Resolute | 1' 34" | 1 | 1 |
| June 8th, 1920 | Newport | 15 miles x 2 | Resolute | Vanitie | 33' 07" | 2 | 1 |
| June 9th, 1920 | Newport | 30 miles triangle | Resolute | Vanitie | 1' 00" | 3 | 1 |
| June 10th, 1920 | Newport | 14 miles x 2 | Vanitie | Resolute | 0' 54" | 3 | 2 |
| June 11th, 1920 | Newport | 15 miles x 2 | Resolute | Vanitie | 0' 57" | 4 | 2 |
| June 12th, 1920 | Newport | 30 miles triangle | Vanitie | Resolute | 4' 02" | 4 | 3 |
| June 15th, 1920 | Newport | 14 miles x 2 | Resolute | Vanitie | 3' 06" | 5 | 3 |
| June 20th, 1920 | Newport | 15 miles x 2 | Resolute | Vanitie | 1' 56" | 6 | 3 |
| June 23rd, 1920 | Newport | 10 miles x 2 | Resolute | Vanitie | 1' 07" | 7 | 3 |
| June 24th, 1920 | Newport | 10 miles x 2 | Resolute | Vanitie | 0' 42" | 7 | 4 |
NEWPORT, R.I., June 26.-- RESOLUTE CHOSEN TO DEFEND TROPHY - Resolute, the Herreshoff built sloop, owned by a syndicate of New York yachtsmen, was this afternoon selected by the Cup Defense Committee to defend America's Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger, Shamrock IV.
June 28, 1920 - When Resolute meets Shamrock IV. in defense of America's Cup next month she will present the best combination of crew and equipment, drawn in part from the Vanitie, her rival for defense honors. It was announced today that Rear Commodore George Nichols of the New York Yacht Club, skipper of the Vanitie in the trial races, would join Resolute’s after-deck staff as navigator, in place of Lieutenant Arthur Adams of Boston. Vanitie also will contribute her choicest spars and rigging, some of which are said to have proved to be of better quality than those carried by Resolute in the test races.
July 6, 1920 - Vanitie Entirely Stripped - The once proud Vanitie, contender for the honor of defending the America's Cup against the Shamrock IV., is literally but a shell or her former self. Hauled up at Jacob's Shipyard, City Island, the Gardner creation has been dismasted and stripped of everything, even her bowsprit. Nothing remains but the hull of the once beautiful sloop that contested in the trial races against the Resolute, so recently held off Newport. Little time was lost in putting the prospective cup yacht out of commission.
Vanitie and Resolute stay out of commission until 1926.
On 1925, VANITIE BOUGHT BY Robert E. TOD - As Resolute, she will also have rigging changed into a schooner.
April 27, 1926- TOD NOT TO RACE SCHOONER VANITIE - Although Mr. Tod has recently spent upward of $100,000 in fitting out the yacht, he causes surprise yesterday by suddenly deciding to sell the former Cup defense sloop.
On May 18, 1926, Resolute was launched as a schooner at the yards of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. The races against her old rival Vanitie, also converted to schooner rig, can resumed.
May 25, 1926- H.P. WHITNEY BUYS SCHOONER VANITIE - He returns to yacht racing and will compete with the New York Y.C. during the coming season.
On June 28, Harry Payne Whitney's Vanitie won the race for schooners on the ocean course off Brenton's Reef today, defeating Resolute and other crack two-masters with ridiculous ease.
On July 2, in a 148-mile race round Cape Cod from Newport, which, because of unusually light airs, was anybody's up to within a few miles of the finish, the schooner Resolute scored her first victory under her new rig by capturing the Vanderbilt Gold Cup.
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| The reappearance of the two America’s cup candidates, Herreshoff’s successful Resolute and Gardner’s handsome sloop Vanitie excited popular interest in the 1926 racing. These 75-foot waterline sloops built in 1914, were bought by E. Walter Clark, owner of Irolita, and Robert E. Tod, owner of the Katouras and completely refitted for cruising. Mr Tod sold his yacht to Mr Harry Payne Whitney before he left City Island. Their new schooner rigs were radically different, because the Bristol designer developed a clever but complicated spritsail arrangement, while Gardner reduced the number of sails to a minimum. The tables above show a clear dominance of the Vanitie. |
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| Year | Date | Race | Winner | Gap |
| 1929 | June 13 | New York Yacht Club regatta | Vanitie | 3' 08" |
| June 14 | New York Yacht Club regatta | Vanitie | ||
| July 1st | Beverly Y. C. regatta | Vanitie | 2' 36" | |
| July 2nd | Beverly Y. C. regatta | Vanitie | 2' 31" | |
| July 4 | Eastern Y. C. regatta | Vanitie | ||
| July 7 | Eastern Y. C. regatta | Vanitie | 7' 05" | |
| July 8 | Eastern Y. C. regatta | Vanitie | 1' 41" | |
| July 9 | Eastern Y. C. regatta | Resolute | ||
| July 10 | Run to Portland | Vanitie | ||
| July 11 | Eastern Y. C. regatta | Vanitie | 26' 08" | |
| July 12 | Marblehead | Vanitie | 5' 20" | |
| August 9 | U.S.Navy Cup | Vanitie | ||
| August 12 | Vanderbilt Cup | Resolute | ||
| August 15 | Vice Commodore's Cup | Vanitie | ||
| August 17 | King's Cup | Vanitie |
Nov, 1928.- Vanitie is sold by H.P. Whitney; purchased by Gerard B. Lambert, owner of the Atlantic.May 1929.- Vanitie and Resolute are back to their original rigs as sloops; the same rig under which Resolute beat Vanitie for the honor of defending the America's Cup in 1920.April 1930.- Resolute, the last defender, and Vanitie, her rival, are to be made ready for race against new America's Cup defense boats.
Old Rivals as sloops Marconi
by Burnell Poole
In 1930 Vanitie again participated in the America's cup selection races, albeit as a "trial horse" against which the potential defenders could be judged. She was altered to rate as a J but not acceptable for AC as a J-Class yacht (too big: I-Class).
During the Summer 1931, Weetamoe easily beat Resolute and Vanitie. Vanitie has dominated Resolute throughout the season 1931.
On March 1932, Vanitie, Gerard B. Lambert's America's Cup yacht, is to be put overboard at City Island and towed to the Herreshoff yard in Bristol, R.I., where the changes are to be made in her for racing against the Weetamoe during the next Summer. She will have the tallest mast ever stepped in a sailing vessel (173 feet).
Bristol, R.I., June 4, 1932.- Weetamoe, with her owner, Frederick H. Prince, at the helm, beat Gerard B. Lambert's Vanitie today by two minutes in an informal yacht race off Newport. Mr. Lambert, Chandler Hovey and Miss Elizabeth Hovey made up the afterguard on the losing boat.LARCHMONT, N.Y., June 18,1932. -- For the third time in three days Gerard B. Lambert's America's Cup creation Vanitie today defeated Frederick H. Prince's Weetamoe, the sloop that many times took the measure of the cup defender Enterprise.
The duel between Vanitie and Weetamoe will continue for two seasons, 1932 et 1933. Although dominated, Vanitie won many victories, the last being in the King's Cup:NEWPORT, R.I., Aug. 19, 1933 
- Despite her nineteen years, Gerard B. Lambert's America's Cup yacht Vanitie won the King's Cup race off here today.Defeats Weetamoe in yachting yest off Newport by 14:21 corrected time.
For the defense of the America's Cup 1934, the new Rainbow will meet Weetamoe, Yankee, and the Vanitie, not eligible for cup defense but a pace setter with her great rig. Gerard B. Lambert owns the Vanitie and is paying the entire cost of her participation in the contests. In addition he is a member of the Rainbow syndicate. From August 25 to September 9, Endeavour has had daily practice with the crack American yacht Vanitie, generously put at Endeavour's disposal by Vanitie's owner, Gerard Lambert.
BRISTOL, September 16, 1939 - VANITIE TO BE SCRAPPED; Vanitie, which once held her owner's hopes as a defender of the America's Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton, is headed for the junk pile.
Vanitie had an exceptional career of 20 years with the participation in three selections for the America's Cup 1920, 1930 and 1934. By itself, it fully justifies the modification of rules intervened after the excesses of Reliance.
