AMERICA'S CUP STAYS HERE
RESOLUTE WINS BY A MILE

TIME LIMIT ALMOST GONE AS DEFENDER CROSSES LINE

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1920 - When Resolute and Shamrock IV started making ready in Sandy Hook Bay for the fifth and ...

Victory of the British Yacht in the Third Race.

Still, though defeated not dejected, Capt Woods and his crew set to work to get the Livonia for the third race which was fixed for the 19th, on the day after the previous match and it was the prevailing idea that either the Dauntless or the Palmer were to be the Livonia's antagonist this time

THE YACHTS REMEASURED.

When the yachts came home after the first race, it was known to none but the regatta and cup committees of the New York Yacht Club that Lord Dunraven had made a charge bearing an imputation of fraud, to Mr. Latham A. Fish, the New York Yacht Club member sailing on Valkyrie III...

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For the new boat Sir Thomas turned back to William Fife, the designer of the first Shamrock. The boat was built under lock and key, and until she was launched nothing was known of the kind of craft Fife would turn out after his experience here in the race of 1899.
Shamrock III was launched early in the season, on March 17th 1903, day of Saint Patrick, under the most successful conditions.

Dick Brown was a New York and Sandy Hook pilot who sailed the schooner-yacht AMERICA to England in the summer of 1851, and was at her helm when she successfully raced for the trophy that was to become known as the America's Cup.
Pilots from ports like New York and Boston were a special breed. They sailed in small schooners and managed in all weather conditions to shepherd big ships into the harbor.

John S. Johnston (c.1839- December 17, 1899) was a late 19th-century maritime and landscape photographer. He is known for his photographs of racing yachts and New York City landmarks and cityscapes.
Very little is known about his life. He was evidently born in Britain in the late 1830s, and was active in the New York City area in the late 1880s and 1890s. He died in 1899.

Olin J. Stephens was born on April 13, 1908 in the Bronx, New York. His father was a coal merchant who moved the family to Scarsdale, New York in 1913, where Olin and his brother Rod went to school. It was while spending summers on the New England coast that Olin first learned to sail.
Graduating in 1926 from Scarsdale High School, Olin attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for one semester only to be forced ...