St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-06
steam yachts, and some were picked up

broken.
In the meanwhile the Vigilant and
the Britannia had got away, not know
ing Of the sinking or the Valkyrie or
damage done TO. the Satanita. The
Britannia hitched about to throw her.
self on the weather beam. Both yachts
| then went across the Firth on the star
board tack to the opposite land.
When they tackled again
THE VIGILANT
was pushing her bowsprit over the
Britannia's weather quarter, and was
threatening to run INFO the weather
berth.
The Vigilant continued to draw ahead
of the Britannia, aud turning the Ascog
mark best, the yachts came on the run
with their boomS over to port, the Vigil
liant carrying her great balloon. or
spinnaker jibs. as they are termed here.
which were drawing splendidly. OF
toward Point Sk0lmourlie. after round
| ing AScog. both yachts got their spinna-
kers to starboard, and their club top.
sails were replaced by jib headers. at
the weather mark jack-yarders were
got up, and working along the Cloch
shore, spinnakers were run out to port
and jib tOpSai!s were set.
Under this sail both yachts ran to-
ward kilcreggan, and from here 1t
appeared as If the Britannia was clos
Ing up little. Approaching the Cloch
lighthouse on the run home to the
finish, the Vigilant was still leading,
and 1t was estimated that she was about
seven minutes ahead. The wind was
softening, but the Britannia, with her
splnnaker down, began to haul her In,
aud passed her near Gourock.
The Britannia passed the winning
mark only five seconds ahead of the
| NlUiIant amid n nf
enthusiasm ashore and at the club
house. The time of ths Britannia was
5 hours So minutes; the time of the
Vigilant hours SO minutes 5 seconds.
The people ashore when the result
was known gave three cheers for the
Prince OF Wales and for the Britannia.
Seven miles from the finish. coming
up the Fir.h under spinnakers, with a
light breeze, the Britannia. which had
been several minutes behind the Wig
liant, gradually overlook and passed
her off Ashton and rounded the Kill
| creggan mark boat for the reach home
half minute ahead of the Vig.lant.
The following is the corrected time of
the finish:
Britannia, hours % minutes Sec
ond; Vigilant, hours % minutes Sc
| seconds.
One of the most remarkable changes
which ever occurred in a yacht race
took place several miles from the finish.
The wind was still fairly fresh on the
run UP the Firth as far as Cloch. where
the Vigiant had lead of over five min
vtes. On the home side of Gloon. how
ever, the Vigilant dropped out of the
wind and the Britannia began to draw
up on her, keeping further from the
shore. A mile above Cloch tie Vigilant
was passed. and the Britannia was lead
ing by half minute at Kilcreggan. On
the reach the Vigilant pluckily endeav-
ored to come past OH the weather, but
the Britannia lutfed up. preventing her.
The finish was already cabled. The
| Vlgllant should undoubtedly have won
with a minute or two TO spare, and
| would have done SO but for the sudden
falling OF the wind, in which the Bril-
tannia was so well served. 1t was adj
United on all sides that the VIgilant
was the better boat.
SINKING OF THE VALKYRIE.
Shortly afrer the sinking of the Val
kyrie Watson, the yacht designer, who
| was OH board the cutter at the time of
the accident, said:
81 was standing beside Lord Dun
raven, who was steering the Valkyrie.
At gunfire the Valkyrie was reaching
down on the starboard tack i'll order to
| take the line. The Satanita, which had
come up on the port tack. was too soon,
and was Obliged to hold on before put
| ting about for the start. In luffing 10
cleal small boat which was in her
way the Satanita ran into Ls, striking
the Vakyrie amldships, and cutting
! into her about six feet. The two yachts
were locked together for a short while.
The Satanita's bowsprit and topinast
were carried away almost immediately
on the yachts separating. The VAL
| kyrle then began to sink. Lady
| Aldine Lennox and Lord Gordon
| LennoX were sitting at the stern of the
| Valkyrie at the time of the accident.
They were greatly alarmed, but Lord
Dunraven remained cool and treasured
them. A number of small boats put off
from the other yachts in the harbor and
took off Lord and Lady Lennox, Lord
| Dunraven and myself before the VAL
kyrie. disappeared from view, which she
| did IN about three minutes after the
collision.
The accident produced great excite
ment among the yachtsmen. Capt.
Griffin, the pilot of the Valkyrie, sald:
I'VE had been reaching away as tar as
Strone point, about mile away. and
about half the time after the prepare
gun we were standing for the mark.
lien seconds from the starting gun we
Lord Dunraveu put the helm down and
when the accident happened we were
| head to wind.
1.-The Satanita then had her helm hard
up, but 1t was too late to avoid coils
ion. Her bOwsprit came right over the
top OF US just before the mast and the
Valkyrie was crushed right into the
matches. The Valkyrie is completely
lost SO far as racing is concerned, and
hnD En- han Il
pieces. as the crew declare that she was
virtually broken in halves.
| VIGILANT'S BAD LUCK.
Another correspondent OF the Asso-
ciated Press who attended the races
! says that The Vigilant's race here
brought her about the worst bit of luck
she has had during her brilliant career.
After exhibiting the most pronounced
superiority for more than forty miles,
beating the Britannia on every point of
sailing, she had the misfortune to drop
into calm patch. and the Britannia,
| warned OFT with vein of wind, was EN-
abled to win. From Kilcreggan the
Vigilant made plucky but futile at
tempt to crush through on the Britain:
MAS weather, but the latter luffed her
all the way across. The timing in the
second round was as follows: AT
Skelmorlie: Vigilant, 2:2S:15; Brit
anna, 2:Sl :55. At Innellant: Vigilant,
3:lO:4l; Britannia, 3:l5:26. AT Kill
creggan: Vigilant. 4:0S:03; Britannia.
4:07:30.
The Vigilant has not been measured
yet. but it is calculated that she will
have to allow the Britannia little over
three minutes. The result of the race
is popular, but there is nobody found to
say that the Britannia won on her
merits. A. d. Clarke, the owner of the
Satanita, describes the collision of his
boat with the Valkyrie. and the sinking
of the latter, as one of the saddest iuci-
dents of his life.
GEORGE GOULD TALKS,
What He Thinks OF His Crews