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RANGER SCORES BY 3 MILES FOR SECOND VICTORY IN ROWRanger won her second straight of the America's Cup races, and in doing so administered to the challenger, Endeavour II, the worst defeat over a triangular course of thirty miles in the long history of the prized trophy.
THE VOLUNTEER'S VICTORY.Copyright © The New York Times : Published: September 28, 1887
In the minds of very many people the question of the relative merits of the Volunteer and Thistle, as individuals, and the centerboard sloop and the cutter, as types, was emphatically set at rest yesterday afternoon, when the Volunteer crossed the finishing line so far ahead of the Thistle that the latter became an object for sympathy. The sloop apparently outsailed her from the start to the finish.
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Michael Edward Ratsey comes from a shipbuilder family. His grandfather Lynn Ratsey built the cutter yacht Leopard in 1807. Her dimensions were, length on deck, 64 feet 4 inches; length of keel, 54 feet 3 inches; beam, 19 feet; depth, 11 feet; draft, 10 feet.
His father Michael Ratsey also marked the history of the America's Cup. He designed and built in 1838 the famous cutter Aurora who came close ...
Jerome Howes's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $216 USD to $3,220 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2002 the record price for this artist at auction is $3,220 USD for Catboats off Nantucket, sold at Eldred's Auction and Appraisal Services in 2012.
Charles Keith Miller (British, 1836–1907) was born in the port of Dundee. He first went to sea at the age of 15, aboard the steamer Correo. After 10 years of maritime service he was awarded his master’s certificate in 1861.
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