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The Great International Yacht Race, August 8, 1870
Author
Currier & Ives.
Title
The Great International Yacht Race, August 8, 1870
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
Description
English: The Great International Yacht Race, August 8, 1870 also to published later with modifications as Rounding the light ship

Inscription on this print: The Great International Yacht Race, August 8, 1870, for the Queen's Cup won by the America at Cowes, in 1851, from the Club House, Staten Island, N.Y. around the S.W. Spit to and the light ship off Sandy Hook and back, 40 miles. Seventeen American and the English yacht Cambria started at 11.21 A. M. The race was won by Magic, which rounded the home stake boat in 3 hours, 33 minutes, 54 seconds. The Yachts Tidal Wave, Widgeon, and Alarm failed to complete the race and were ruled out.
Race times:
Magic 3h 33' 54"
Dauntless 3h 35' 23 1/2"
Idler 3h 37' 23"
America 3h 47' 54"
Phantom 3h 55' 05"
Madgie 3h 55' 07"
Sylvie 3h 55' 12"
Cambria 4h 00' 57"
Fleetwing 4h 02' 09 1/2"
Halcyon 4h 03' 08"
Tarolinta 4h 10' 29"
Madeleine 4h 14' 46"
Calypso 4h 15' 29"
Rambler 4h 17' 35 1/2"
Alice 4h 18' 27 1/2"
Yachts noted L-R: Magic, Dauntless, Cambria, Idler, and America.MIT reference reference copy at the METreference copy

Abstract: 1 print : chromolithograph.
Date 1870
date QS:P571,+1870-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Subject
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