AMERICA'S CUP "If we can fly today in the San Francisco Bay, this is because there have been "adventurers" like Walter Greene and Mike Birch.
To understand the future, we must know and respect the past."
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September 07, 1895 - The committee boat, the tug Luckenback, ...
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 to decide which of the three new sloops, Defiance, Resolute, and Vanitie, shall have the honor of defending ...
The last defender designed by Nathanael Greene HerreshoffThe Resolute was designed and built by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff for a syndicate of New York Yacht Club members headed by Henry Walters and composed by John Pierpont Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Frederick G. Bourne, George F. Baker, Jr., Arthur Curtiss James, Harold S. Vanderbilt, Richard T. Crane, Payne to defend the America's cup against the Shamrock IV. in 1914.
Frank John MURDOCH is born February 21, 1904 in Antwerp,Belgium, son of Dan Murdoch and Alice Murdoch (born Jansen), married to Phyllis Murdoch (born Strutt), he had two boys Anthony John and Colin Peter. He died June 13, 1996 in Nyon, Switzerland.
His involvement with boat building was no surprise. The Murdoch family had been engaged in it since 1867, and he had cruised and raced ...
James Lloyd Ashbury (1834 – 3 September 1895) was a British yachtsman and Conservative Party politician.
The son of John Ashbury, founder of the Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Company Ltd of Manchester, James trained as an engineer and joined the family company. When his father died in 1866 he inherited the business and a considerable fortune...
William Formby Halsall was a marine painter based in Massachusetts. Born in England, his family settled in Boston when he was young. Halsall worked as a sailor for seven years until 1859. In 1860 he began studying fresco painting with William E. Norton, a marine artist and contemporary of his in Boston who was also a former sailor.
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