Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-08-22
vALKYRIE III. IN PORT
Lord Dunraven's Gallant
Yacht Arrives Safely.
Had a Somewhat Rough Voyage
But All on Board Arc Well-She
Broke No Record, Although She
Made the Passage in Good Time.
A Grand Welcome.

New York, Aug. 19-The boat which
Lord Dunraven has built to wrest tn,
Americas cup and the yachting supre
macy from Yankeedom, is at anchor il
New York harbor. After encounterine
heavy seas aud considerable head wind.
since her departure from Gourick bay
Scotland, on July 81, the cup challenges
arrived at Sandy Hook lightship at 7:3t
o'clock last evening, on her twenty -secont
day out. Her passage from Maln Head
where she dropped her tug on the Other
side, to Sandy Hook, 2,770 nautical miles
took her q days, 8 hours and 30 min
utes, an average of 129 miles day. The
Vigilant last April made 2,934 miles
from the Lizard to Sandy Hook, in Is
days, / hour and 40 minutes, II daily
average of 1853 miles, but the Nigilant
had more favorable weather than the
Valkyrie III. has experienced.
The Dunraven cutter made the ocean
voyage without serious mishap, and
although her time breaks no record, she
has made remarkable trip. Clever
British shippers and plucky British tars
brought through stiff winds and heavy
seas the low racing craft with flush
decks and scarcely any protection for
those board. With peculiar ketch rig
of stout spars and tough canvas, the
modern racing machine crossed the At
lantic where many a big steamship has
come to grief. The long, low, slender
craft made her way under canvas until
twenty miles to the eastward of Sandy
Hook lightship, when at 8 O'Clock she
took line from towboat and came into
harbor with fleet of tugs. At 9:45 the
feet arrived at quarantine. DIR. Doty, by
special request, went on board the Val
kyrie aud after brief examination,
passed her She was then towed to an
chorage off Liberty island.
At 3. 40 p. m. the Nalkyrie was sighted
off Point Lookout about half way be-
tween Fire Island and the lightship
which marks the entrance to the port OF
few York. The British ensign bright
and red in the rays of the setting sun
waved from the top of the jigger mast
and Lord Dunraven's private pennant of
blue and yellow futtered at her topmast.
,ad. Great Britain's flag was Il new
one while the owners signal was old and
nearly half blown away. Her white hull
suggested that of the Defender with its
sharp PROV and immense overhang aft,
but amidships the great beam suggested
the Vigilant's lines. Valkyrie appeared
to have less freeboard than either Nigi-
liant or Defender A narrow gold band
relieved the plain whiteness of her sides.
Her deck was like that of Defender, flush
and without break. There it no cock.
pit forward of the tiller, and the house
amidships is very small.
just as the Valkyrie took II line from
her tug the United Press tug Dal-
zell arrived alongside, To a hail from
her decks Capt Sycamore said that all
were well on board and that the trip had
been made without mishap. Ten min
utes later the City of Bridgeport arrived.
She blew three whistles and sent aloft
Lord Dunraven's collars, followed "a mo-
ment later by private signal. Then Mr..
Glennie waved welcome with his arms
and shouted through the megaphone:
"How are you? Are you all well?'
Capt Cranfleld came on deck and shouted
back: eyes, sir; we are all we'll" The
White Star tug Louis Pulyer then joined
the fleet, and there was a general sere-
made of steam whistles. This was re
peated when the Nalkyrie passed the
Sandy Hook lightship at 1880. Coming
up the lower bay and through the mar
rows to quarantine there were repeated
salutes.