Document No 5732: A Jibe Around the Lightship: DAUNTLESS, 1877
AUTEUR : Russ Kramer
REF : 0
EDITION : 1870
DATE : 1877
COURSE : 0
DESCRIPTION SITE :
24” x 40” Oil on Linen
Built in 1866 in Mystic, CT, as the 97-foot schooner L’Hirondelle and later purchased, renamed and lengthened by James Gordon Bennett, Jr. to 120-feet, she had a long and storied racing career, including three trans-Atlantic matches and an America’s Cup defense in 1870. She is shown here rounding the Sandy Hook Lightship with Captain Bully Samuels at the helm in a New York Yacht Club race in the summer of 1877.