The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-02-18
No. CONTINUED From
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England, challenged for the cup but
owing 10 some disagreement as to the
! terms he did not race for the cup until
/ 1870, when he came across the Atlantic
/ in his schooner yacht Cambria In an
ocean race against James Gordon Ben
nett's Dauntless from the Old Head
of Kinsale to Sand Hook Lightship.
! Cambria beat Dauntless in the ocean
race by over an hour. The conditions
/ for the first contest for the Americas
icup in these waters We're the same
which governed the race against a
/ fleet of yachts which America won
around the Isle OF Wight. Cambria
had one race against the whole New
Yacht club fleet. It was sailed over
the old New York Yacht club course,
from off StapIeton, Staten Island to
and around the Sandy Hook Light
ship and return. Fifteen schooners
competed, the start being made at
11:20 a. m, August s, 1870. Magic
won, beat Idler the second yacht by II
minutes. America finished fourth in
this event and Cambria the challenger
finished in tenth place over SO min
utes behind the winner.
In 1871 Mr.. Ashbury returned with a
new schooner, Livonia, while the New
York Yacht club selected four schoon-
ers. Columbia, Sappho, Palmer and
Dauntless as defenders in a series of
four out of seven races. Columbia,
la light weather boat, won the first
race, on October 16, by 81 minutes,
4 seconds corrected time. Two days
later. Columbia again was the victor.
On the following day Columbia lost
her flying jib stay and broke her
steering gear on the run home. Lii
vonia winning by 10 minutes, 10 sec
onds. Sappho was selected as the
defender in the fourth race, on October
81 and beat Livonia by 80 minutes, Fl
seconds. On October %, Sappho
again defeated the challenger by rs
minutes, 81 seconds ending the series.
The Royal Canadian Yacht club was
the next challenger with the schooner
Countess of Dufferin. The schooner
Madeline was chosen to meet her
and on August II, 1876 beat the Ca
madam yacht by nearly IL minutes.
The series, two out of three, was fin
ished the following day Madeline win
ming by 81 minutes, ii seconds.
Canada also furnished the next chal-
Ienger in 1881. This was the 65-foot
sloop Atlanta, the first single sticker
to try for the cup. After several
trial races Mischief an iron sloop was
chosen to defend the trophy. This she
successfully accomplished in two races
Nov. and 10, 1881, winning the first
by 2Sk minutes and the second by
over "a minutes.
The British cutter Genesta, a 80
footer, owned by Sir Richard Sutton
of the Royal Yacht Squadron was the
next challenger and the Puritan boat
beat her in two successive races Sept. !
II and 16, 1885.
Lieutenant William HEM of the
royal navy brought over the 9O-foot
cutter Galatea in 1886 but she was
beaten by the Mayflower, a Boston
sloop. This was a contest between
center board and keel. Mayflower won
the first race Sept. Z, 1886 by IL min
utes and four days later beat Gala
tea more decisively by over IL min
utes.
Thistle, 4 Scotch cutter, owned by |
Vice Commodore Bell of the 9JoyaI
Clyde Yacht club, came over the fol- /
lowing year, 1887. An improved May
flower, the Volunteer, was specially |
designed and built to defend the cup
this year, as Thistle had done Won |
ders in British waters. Volunteer, a
steel sloop. won two straight, however, |
the first on September 81, 1887 by 10
minutes, 231a seconds and three days
later took the second by IL minutes
3784 seconds.
There was lapse OF SIX years be- |
fore another challenge came. this time
Lord Dunraven's Valkyrie II, was the
visiting craft. Four yachts were built
for the honor of defending the cup
but Vigilant was chosen, Three out Of
five races were to be won and Vigil |
liant took three successfully. The first |
on October Z, 1898 by 5.48 corrected |
time: the second by 1885 but she had |
only a margin of 40 seconds, correct |
ed time in the third race on October |
13. |
Lord Dunraven tried again in 1895 |
with Valkyrie III but with no better |
result. The American boat Defender |
won the first race by $40 corrected |
time. Falkyrie III won the second |
apparently by AZ seconds but was dis |
qualified for fouling Defender at the |
start. In the third race Valkyrie III |
crosses the starting line but immedi- !
ately abandoned the race. Lord Dun |
raven stated that the reason he quit |
the race was the failure of the New
York Yacht club to comply with his |
request for a guaranteed clear course !
so that a foul such as occurred IN |
the second race could he avoided. |
Defender sailed over the course alone |
and so won all three contests. Lord |
Dunraven accused the New York