Pueblo chieftain., 1921-05-15
FAMOUS YACHT
SOON TO MAKE
FINAL JOURNEY
Schooner America to Be Per.
manenhy Moored In Severn
River AT indianapolis

! New York. May 14.-Thousands of
yanhtsmen in the eastern part of the
United States will have the opportun-
ity within the next few months of
treading tho deck of the famous
schooner yacht America as she makes
her last voyage from Boston to a
permanent mooring in the placid wat
ers of the Severn river at Annapolis,
where she will take her place once
more as one of the government ves-
sells attached to the Naval Academy
after an absence of IS years.
AS the yacht will call at nearly all
the yachting centers on the way
SOUTH. it will be possible for more
persons to view and personally in
spect tho winner of the Royal Yacht
Squadron Cup. which now bears her
name, and is regarded as the Blue
Ribbon trophy of the yachting world,
than over before in her remarka bic
career.
This opportunity is made possible
4 thru " the coXtesy OF her owner Charles
Eastern Yacht club. OF which he is
one of the Oldest members, offered to
restore tho boat to the government
Tho offer has been accepted by Secre-
tary DENLY. with the stipulation that
instead of the navy department ac-
permitted TO buy the yacht for the
nominal sum of one dollar. The law
prohibits the government from accept
ing personal service without remuner-
alton or acquiring property except by
purchase or capture.
Even in case of capture, the property
has to go thru what is known as a
prize court in order that the claims
under tho admiralty law of the persons
who In any respect participated in 1t.
may bo rewarded. SinGularly enough
the America has been thru a. prize
court. but in that case. the crew of
the United States warship Ottawa
which captured and raised her from
tho bottom OF tho st. Johns river in
1862 after she had been scuttled by
the confederatcs waived their claim for
prize money on condition that ahe
should bc sent TO Annapolis as a train
Ing vessel for the cadets.
After nearly a year on the blockade
on Charleston. during which she made
several captures unaided, the yacht
which had been renamed Memphis by
the Confederates, but which had been
changed back to America. appeared at
the Naval Academy, and for ten years
was in more or less active service. She
was fitted out for tho pursuit of Con
fedcrate privatccrs. engaged in the
summer manoeuvers of tho Academy
fleet after tho war, and finally in 1870
participated In tho first race hero for
tho cup which she had won 10 years
before off the Islo of Wight, England
j.
cup in American waters. tho challenger
was forced to sail against a fleet Of
defenders. and the America which has
been htted out as a yacht by tho navy
department at an expense of several
thousand dollars. was entered In the
race by n member or tho New York
Yacht club The America was fourth
boat at the finish line. but the chsl-
lenGer Cambria was more than IL
minutes sstsrn.
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passed into private hands and from
1873 to 1917 she was owned by chm.
Benjamin +. Butler of Lowell Mass
and his heirs. being sailed in later
years by Gen. Buffers son, Paul But
Ter and by his Grand son Gen. Butler
Amos
In 1850 by Gen Butlcr'u direction the
America was practically rebuilt. She
originally had q short stern. something
like tho present New York Yacht club
so o-footers. and when she won the cup
the stern was embellished with q
spread eagle in gilt, This emblem Is
now in the trophy room of the New
York Yacht club. The only part Of the
original America at present intact ia
her foremas', n splendid stick of clear
white pine. Except for the stern. how
ever. the America today is exactly tho
same boat as far as her model rs con.
cerned as when she was launched 20
years ago. Just as the Constitution i-
justly regarded as the same boat which |
defeated the Macedonian. sltho all that
remains Of the original Old fronstdcs is
hcr port gangwav and one Of her bits !
Tho America was last under sail in |
1901. when she appeared in the Sandy |
Hook horse shoe and anchored be |
tween Shamrock II and Columbia |
while those boats were PARTICIPATING
in the eleventh series for the cup. She |
was inspected at the time hv Sir |
Thomas Upton and Hevoral mcmbera /
Of tho Naw York Yacht club. including |
:. Nicholson Kane, tho chairman of |
the regatta committee in charge Of |
the races who comm ndad the America |
for fcw months while nc was a cadet |
at the Naval Academy.
Gen. Butler Amcs placed her out Of |
in the fall of 1901 and for |
ten years she lav in tho dark sluggish |
waters of Chelsea Greek In Boston. In /
1911. she was shifted across Boston |
Harbor to n mourinE close by the |
South station whore thousands passed
her every day, without knowing any |
thing OF her historical interest
In 1915, Mr., Foster saved the yacht
from destruction by purchase. She was
taken over to Lawley's shipyard AT
Neponset and stripped of her mssta
and rigging and her keel was removed
In accepting the offer of the America.
under the provision already sta,.d'
Secretary DENLY in his letter to Com
nodorc Herbert NJ. Sears said
~ take great pleasure in telling YOU
IN behalf of tho Navy Department
mat the Navy appreciates very greatly
Tho generosity and fine splrit shown by |
Mr.. g. II. w. Foster of Boston. one OF
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