The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-05
ACROSS THE OCEAN.



The DOuntiess and the Ca ambria-Their Oceanic
Race.
The great ocean race between the American
yacht Dauntless and the English yacht Cambria
promises to be one of the leading sensations of
the season.
After considerable newspaper discussion, Mr.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., late owner of the
Henrietta, succeeded in arranging race for his
new yacht, the Dauntless, with the Cambria
owned by Mr.. Ashbury, n very prominent Eng
lsh yachtsman, The late races between the
American yacht Sappho owned by Mr.. Douglas,
and the Cambria, in which the stars and stripes
were triumphant three times in succession, are
matters OF history. The Dauntless and the
Cambria arrived at Queenstown, Ireland,
on the 2Sth of last month, and their
owners have been the guests of the Royal
Cork Yacht Club. They arranged to start
Yesterday, at o'clock, from Daunt Head
buoy. about thirteen miles east of the old Head
of Kinsale and short distance from Queens
town Harbor. In order to give ocean steamers
every chance Of recognizing them at night the
Daunlless has arranged to burn blue lights at
her bow and stern. and fire three blue rockets in
quick succession, and the Cambria will do the
same, but with red lights. Captain Martin F.
Lyons, who sailed the Henrietta in her ocean
race, left New York about month ago to take
charge of the Dauntless. It is generally be-
lieved that Mr. Ashbury has secured the SER
vices of a well-known Liverpool merchant cap
tain who is well acquainted with the various
currents and winds OF the Atlantic.
The following is a short sketch of the two
Yachts
The Dauutess was built by John Forsyth, at
Mystic, CT, for Dexter Bradford, of Newport,
aud named L L'Hirondelle, and about three years
ago was purchased by James Gordon Bennett,
Jr.. and rechristened the Dauntess. In the fall
of 1868 she was taken to Nyack, and underwent
extensive alterations in the yards of MesSrs. K.
d j. Palmer. Thirteen feet were added to her
length, her mainmast was moved five feet for
ward. and her fOrcmast seven. Her steering
apparatus is Jackson's patent and she has also
two patent wrenches for hosting canvas.
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feet: water line, III feet; depth of hold,
1015 feet breadth of beam, 26 feet:
measurement, 26S feet, by New York Yacht
Club rules; her mainmast, 80 feet maintepmast,
GO feet, making $50 feet from deck to truck;
foremast. SO feet: foretop, 40 feet, or 13l feet
from deck to truck main boom, % feet, and
main gaff, 3612 feet. She spreads about 1889
square feet of canvas and is manned by
captain, sailing-master, mate, boatswain, two
quartermasters, and twelve men before the
mast. She will probably carry more men during
the race, and the club rules entitle her to carry
! thirty-seven. The Dauntless is well known as
one of the best sea boats in the New York Yacht
! Club, which was manifested in the cruise of the
! squadron in 1868
The Cambria is keel schooner, built of oak,
! with teak topsides. Her interior fittings are
remarkably rich and beautiful, and in good
| taste. She has tweDty-one tons of ballast
! smelted and run into her timhers, and has also
four tons of lead bolted to her keel. Under sail
size spreads vast area OF canvas aud works in
=, the wind with the ease and facility of weather
ware. Her best points are being sharp and
quick in stays, lying close to the wind, and
being fast in light breezes. By the wind that
is close hauled-she has gaff-topsails bent to the
ordinary spars; but in sailing free she has much
longer and ligher and more flexible yards aoft,
and the sail of lighter canvas, of course, clubs
out considerable distance. Her bowsprit is a
very peculiar spar, and with the jibboom and
| flying jibboom is all in one stick, and rigs in
and out at the option of the sailing master.
She is 24S tons, New York Yacht Club measure
ment, and 1SS tons Royal Thames Yacht Club
measurement, and was built by Ratsey of
Cowes, at the Isle of Wight in 1868. She is
fine type of the deep and narrow English
model, and in external appearance bears
a resemblance in stiffness and stability to
a Cunard steamer. 1t can hardly be said
that the Cambria is as graceful and charm
ing in her pose upon the water as
the ma iority of American schooners, and this Is
simply because the English willing to sacri-
flee anything to secure the full embodiment of
their ideas as to speed. Her dimensions are:
! Length (from stempost to sternpos), los feet;
beam, 21 feet; depth of hold II feet; draught of
water, 12 feet; mainmast (hounds to deck), 81
! feet: foremast, So feet inches main boom, 81
feet; main gaff, SO feet inches; fore gaff, 25
! feet; bowsprit (outboard stem), 35 feet main
! topsai 35 feet 6 inches foretopsail, 50 feet 3
inches; maintopsall yard, 32 feet; foretopsal
yard, 80 feet.
SREGIAI NOTICES.