Document No 1362: ENDEAVOUR, 1934 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
REF : 0 EDITION : 1934 DATE : 17 Sep 1934 COURSE : 1 DESCRIPTION SITE : 7x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on September 17, 1934. Image of 130' Charles E. Nicholson designed, Camper & Nicholson Yard built J class cutter ENDEAVOUR (built 1934 in Gosport, England) underway. Visible in image: port bow view of cutter (J/K4) on starboard close reach under marconi-rigged mainsail, staysail and jib, flying burgee on mainmast and mainsail, large crew seen on aft deck. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 86. Stamped on original negative sleeve: "69627F" and typed: "Sept. 17, 1934 / ENDEAVOUR". NOTES AMERICA-SCOOP :
ENDEAVOUR WINS FIRST RACE, A TEST OF MEN AND YACHTS; LEADS BY 2.09 MINUTESNEWPORT, R. I., Sept. 17. - Endeavour won. The British yachtsman, T. O. M. Sopwith, aviator and amateur helmsman, sent his blue hulled craft around the course today 2 minutes 9 seconds faster than Harold S. Vanderbilt could drive the Rainbow. Endeavour finished at 3:38:44 and Rainbow at 3:40:53. Adding the eighteen seconds she was astern at the start, Endeavour made the fifteen miles with the wind 2 minutes 27 seconds faster than Rainbow. LICENCE :Autorisation en cours |
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