Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-09-20
THE RACE BETWEEN THE TITANIA AND
AMERICA.

AMEhlCA.
The English press is full of accounts of the fas
yacht. America" and almost Every body in EngIan
is endeavorng to account for the result of the grea
race between her and the Titania. Ii is the hull,
says one, "the size," answers another, "the mo
de" responds the third, and I" the SAILS" argues
the fourth. An intelligent correspondent of tn,
London Times puts the beat down to the bette
cut Of the Americas sail alone. Hesays:
vessels had been put into dock previous to the
and many and curious the examinations made of the
bottoms They resemble each other under much
than would be supposed from their different aspects above
They both built the line principle they both
have great depth Of keel they have the Same difference
drsught fore and a and they both have the grippe entirely
rounded away, in other WORDS the keel rounds up
quarter circle, nearly into the stem at the water line. Al
the surface OF the water their water lines similar the
sections very different the America having
wedge bottom, like the vessels Of Sir William Symoods
which project out above the wster beyond the water ne
while the ;sna has the straight up and down side such
in the vessels of the School of Naval Architecture
Above water the vessels entirely different The T,snia
has the skng Of English the America cut
of core to her sternpo At the bow both show the hollow
wave-ne, but the America carried the hollow up into the
hspng while the T,ana presents the usual aspect deck
of sharp bowed yacht
'The main and essential difference, however, between the
vessels their DIMENSIONS tonnage and of the sails
The America is 22a feet BEAM the Ttania ls the America
has kael 90 feet long, and the Tania under 60
hence, NE America is 2l9 by our measurement
and the Tana 100 TONS To estimate the value Of such
difference have only refer to the scale of time
mage that in English yacht race the time allowed
for difference in tonnage would be SIS minutes"
A London paper closes its account of the race
thus:
Between eight and nine, off Cowes were innumerabe
first 2 The answer, Yes.' What's second !" The re-
ply, Nothing" 6 i
The Examiner, in an able article on the yacht
races, proclaims the vice Of the English yacht sys-
tenn to be a reliance on vast spread of canvass.
/" Nineteen yachts in twenty" it says, !" are over
done in masts, spars, and sails. They are conse-
quenty only fit to sail in light winds, andare good
for nothing when it blows" The writer adds:
The American challenge, STIMULATING for at least six
knot breeze, proves that the america must be wholesome
as well as fast craft six knot breeze, with dead beat
head sea, would be too much for many of our crack
yachts which, if they brought reducing SAIL are over
wi emed by the Of their and spars in sea way
1.-The truth is they built for the inside of the Isle of
Wight and for who take yachting for fashions
sake knowing nothing about this natter having no reataste
for the subject Sickness and combining their trips to
Hurst Castle to the west Ryde and Portsmouth the east
and peferrng to them the Southampton if weather
tide raises popPe the gentle Soen The great pleasure
OF these gentlemen is to swagger ahoutn and
have boascr in smart equipment dangling after them
Many yacht hardly srs from its moorngs Cowes in
whole but, to make up for that nscon there
plenty Of boatwork rowing backwards and forwards, hang
and signalling There exceptions there score
OF The two hundred members of the Royal Squadron Club
who good seameD aye and competent 10 boot
but the great msoy unskled The veteran yachter
the Marquis Of Angesea in seeing the America remarked
if she is right, we are all wrong"
TheCowes correspondent of the Morning Chro-
,icle, in letter dated August 99,h, describes this
race as follows:
When the vessels took their station off the Nab Light
the extreme eastern point Of the Isle of Wight the wind was
blowing strong breeze from the N.N.W At a quarter
past eleven the signal gun fred from the Commodore
vessel and the America her canvass and pro-
ceeded her destination taking the lead but had scarcely
got than three times her length Of the Itana when her
opponent through having her square sail quickly set
drew little upon the america; but had "the
ankee got her fore and aft squaresas set than she ran
like lightning before the wind. She carried foeopal on
the present OCCASION She continued be and
then the Other running before the wind and still gaining
ahead of the Idnia After rum however, of about two
hours serious accident occurred to the america for the
jaws" Of the ga gave way and they compelled 10
lower her mansa which ashed and again. DELAY
being caused thereby Of three four minutes and losing in
distance at least half mile. This untoward had not
been long repaired and the mansa SET when slipped out
of the grip again. in consequence Of the heavy wind that was
blowing the time This caused further delay, and the
mairsail then kept down time until opportunity
was afforded for her to be the opposite side The Tia
and mainsai set and appeared be very we'll handled but
evidently had power to overhaulher American rival The
America had not long got up her mansa for the third time
when the signal hosied board the that the re-
CURED distance bad been run and at the time notice
given to The America then ufed and rounded
the steamer the larboad hand which done follows
.fmer1cd. .2h SIN. Sos.
lHana.. .....................2
On rounding the steamer the America received the con-
grauaons Of the company on board and on the
first tack she reached in towards the More ghshp about
fifteen miles southeast Of the Nab Light then stood towards
the westward and continued lacking towards the Shore She
then fetched by long reach the Princess Shoals of Benz
bridge From this point she then reached round the
Nab Light bearing g. W., and thus concluded the course
The Queen steamer, having preceded the America her
return, had made fast to the ghtship, and rounding
the clipper for the second time declared the VICTOR beat,
ing the IIania, in the entire rum by ty-two minutes
The following is the time of the arrival:
.dme'ica.. .....................5h. Som. 15s
Iifa'aia go Is
During the greater part Of the return the Taia hull
down. and on the America reaching the Nab she least
eight miles asten. Very shortly after passing the Nab the
gait slipped out from the mansa for the third ime but the
kept on her Cowes which she reached
twenty minutes before eight o'clock.
The Aarfn, after starting the vessels made sail and fol-
lowed the yachts but considerably asen and
running about half the distance, returned the starting
point.
The run out, will be SEEM occupied nearly three hours,
and It believed by that the distance the
was nearer thirty than twenty miles
Although the running heavy all the day. with
strong swell from the westward the America on former
OCCASIONS threw up little surf parting the aba
her foreggng, her cutting through like knife ard
gently gliding the
With this match terminated the amusements Al Cowes-a
season that will be long remembered in the annals Of