ATLANTIC

SHIP YARD WORKERS BUILDING ATLANTICThe Atlantic is a wooden sloop built in the Mumm yard in Brooklyn for a syndicate of members of the Atlantic Yacht Club. She was launched on May 1, 1886.

Its dimensions are 95 feet 7 inches overall length, 84 feet waterline, 23 feet 2 inches beam, bilge depth of 10 feet 6 inches and draft 8 feet 6 inches tall.

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Category: ATLANTIC

Mayflower and AtlanticThe new sloop Atlantic, built as a candidate for cup-defense honors by a syndicate of Atlantic Yacht Club members, consisting of Messrs. Latham A. Fish, J. Rogers Maxwell, William Ziegler, Newbury D. Lawton, and others.

It may be recorded here that Atlantic did not possess speed enough to make her a serious opponent to Mayflower.

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Category: ATLANTIC
Category: ATLANTIC
Category: ATLANTIC