page_title: Thistle (yacht)
section_title: Design
hierarchical_section_title: Thistle (yacht) / Design
caption_attribution_description: English: the Thistle in drydock Deutsch: die Meteor I. im Trockendock
context_page_description: Thistle was the unsuccessful Scottish challenger of the seventh America's Cup in 1887 against American defender Volunteer.
context_section_description: The cutter Thistle was designed by George Lennox Watson, with interiors by his brother Thomas Lennox Watson, and built at the D&W Henderson shipyard in Partick on the River Clyde and launched on 26 April 1887, for a syndicate of owners that included William Clark, John Clark, Andrew Coates, William Coates, James Coates, George Coates, J. Hilliard Bell, and William Bell of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club, and headed by James Bell. She was built of all-metal construction, with a teak deck. Thistle was skippered by John Barr.
caption: Thistle in drydock, as photographed by John S. Johnston.
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