The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-15
OLD SCHOONER SOON SAILS
 LAST VOYAGE
(By Associated PreSs)

of yachtsmen in the eastern part of the United States will have the oppor- tunity within the next few weeks of treading the deck of the fomous scho- oner yacht America as she makes her last voyage from Boston to perma- ne.lt mooring in the placid waters of the Severn river at Annapolis, where she will take her place once more as one of the government vessels attach ed to the naval academy after an ab- sence of 4S years.
 AS the yacht will call at nearly all the yachting centers on the way
 rth, it will be possible for more per sons to view and personally inspect the winner of the Royal Yacht Squad. ron cup, which now bears her name, and is regarded as the blue ribbon trophy of the yachting world, than ever before in her remarkable ca reer
 This opportunity is made possible through the courtesy of her owner Charles H. w. Foster, of Boston, who who through the Eastern Yacht Club, of which he is one of the oldest mem- bers, offered to restore the boat to the government. The offer has been accepted by Secretary Denby, with the stipulation that instead of the navy deparment accepting the boat as a gift, it shall be permitted to buy the yacht for the nominal sum of one dollar. The law prohibits the govern. ment from acceping personal service without remuneration or acquiring property except by purchase or cap- ture.
 erty has to go through what is known as a prize court in order that the claims under the admiralty law of the persons who in any respect par. icipated in it, may be rewarded. Sin gularly enough the America has been through a prize court, but in that case, the crew of the United States warship Ottawa which captured and raised her from the bottom of the St. Johns river in 1862 after she had been scuttled by the confederates waived their claim for prize money on condition that she should be sent to Annapolis as training vessel for the cadets
 After nearly year on the block. ade off Charleston, during which she made several captures unaided, the yacht which had been renamed Mem. phis by the Confederates, but which has been changed back to America, appeared at the naval academy, and for 10 years was in more or less ac- tive service. She was fitted out for the pursuit of Confederate privateers, engaged in the summer manoeuvers of the academy fleet after the war, and finally in 1870 participated in the first race here for the cup which she had won 19 years before off the Isle of Wight, England.
 In the early races for the America S cup in American waters, the challeng- CT was forced to sail against fleet of defenders, and the America which had been fitted out as yacht by the navy department at an expense of several thousand dollars, was en- tered in the race by member of the New York Yacht Club. The America was fourth boat at the finish line, but the challenger Cambria was more than 13 minutes astern.
 Three years later, the America pas sed into private hands and from 1873 to 1917 she was owned by Gen. Ben Jamin F. Butler of Lowell, Mass, and his heirs, being sailed in later years by Gen. Buffers son, Paul Butler and by his grandson Gen. Butler Ames.
 In 1880 by Gen. Buffers direction the America was practically rebuilt. She originally had short stern, something like the present New York Yacht Club 5O-footers, and when she won the cup the stern was embellish- ed with a spread eagle in gilt. This emblem is now in the trophy room of the New York Yacht Cub. The only part of the original America at pres- ent intact is her foremast, a splendid stick of clear white pine. Except for the stern, however, the America today is exactly the same boat as far as her model is concerned as when she was launched 70 years ago just as the Connstiution is justly re- garded as the same boat which de feated the Macedonian, although all