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ATALANTA - 1881

Category: HALF HULLS

HALF HULL OF ATALANTA - SCALE 1/50

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Harold S. Vanderbilt, skipper of Enterprise, and thr afterguardENTERPRISE WINS SERIES AND AMERICA KEEPS CUP - HIS LAST TRY, SAYS LIPTON

SIR THOMAS MOURNS FAILURE AS FINAL

NEWPORT, R.I., Sept. 18.--Sir Thomas Lipton's hopes of winning the America's Cup went a-glimmering out at sea today when Enterprise, the American ...

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03436VTHE THISTLE ANCHORED IN AMERICAN WATERS.; COMING QUIETLY TO ANCHOR NEAR STATEN ISLAND EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING

August 17, 1897 : When the first beams of the rising sun began to color the dull eastern sky yesterday a tugboat could be seen puffing up the Lower Bay toward the Narrows with a tall-masted, shapely sloop in tow.

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BeavorWebbVJohn Beavor-Webb (1849 - March 11, 1927) was an Irish-American naval architect.

He was a designer of sailing yachts, notably the America's Cup challengers Genesta (1884) and Galatea (1885), before emigrating to the United States where he designed very large steamyachts like J.P. Morgan's Corsair II (1891) and Corsair III (1899).

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DeLacyCJV.jpgCharles John de Lacy (1856 – 13 December 1929) was one of the foremost British marine artists of his period. He was especially known for his warship imagery and was regularly commissioned by Elswick, Tyne and Wear shipbuilder W. G. Armstrong Whitworth.

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BollesVEdwin 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.

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