RELIANCE JUST MISSES FINISHING ON TIME

Cup Yacht Race Fails to be Decisive by Six Minutes. Shamrock III, Outsailed in Light Winds, Drops Far Astern of the Defender

Aug. 28, 1903 - The light winds that prevailed yesterday about Sandy Hook and off the Jersey coast were not strong enough to drive Reliance and...

AN EVENTFUL YACHT-RACE.

TWO OF THE BOATS SAIL OVER THE COURSE IN A DISABLED CONDITION.

Copyright © The New York Times - Published: October 14, 1881 : The first of three test races between the first class sloops of the New-York Yacht Club, the object of which is to determine the fastest, so that she may be matched against the new Canadian sloop Atalanta,...

THE DECISIVE RACE FOR THE QUEEN’S CUP - OCT. 23, 1871
THE HARPER'S WEEKLY: Published November 11, 1871

The decisive race for the Queen's Cup, so gallantly won by the yacht America in 1851 from the flower of the English yachts, was sailed on Monday, October 23, between the Livonia and the Sappho. Our artist was a witness of the friendly contest from the start to the close; and on this page records the triumph of the American yacht in a series of pictures which show the position occupied by each of the competing vessels at different hours during the progress of the race.

The magic remains intact

Few documents on Magic which therefore retains all its magic ...
Only this drawing of Herbert L. Stone, who can get an idea of lines of the first winner of the Cup and to compare its size with that of the challenger (see drawing below).

Gallery "Sir Thomas Lipton"

On November 2, 1899, Shamrock leaves New York and is towed back to Great Britain by Lipton's steam yacht Erin, via the Azores. It is dry-docked on arrival.

Each thumbnail presented here contains a link to the original photo on the Mitchell Library' s website.

Better sailors have raced for the Cup, but no finer or kinder men

George Nichols was a son of Mr.John W. T. Nichols and Mrs Mary Blake Slocum. He is a brother of Miss Susan F. Nichols and of William B. Nichols. He was graduated from Harvard in 1900. He is a member of the same firm as his father, Minot, Hooper & Co. dealers in cotton goods at 12 Thomas Street.

Etcher, engraver, draughtsman illustrator, watercolourist and painter; studied in Birmingham, Paris and Italy, worked in London; drawing master to Queen Alexandra.
Began exhibiting in London in 1866.

Edwin Hale Lincoln (1848-1938) was a well-recognized American fine arts photographer who was one of the few photographers that created platinum prints.

Edwin Hale Lincoln was born in Westminster, Mass., in 1848, the son of a Universalist minister. He served as a drummer in the Civil War and then as a page in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.