Document No 1303: RELIANCE, cutter,#G16, 1903 | |||||||||||||||
REF : 0 EDITION : 1903 DATE : 1903 COURSE : 0 DESCRIPTION SITE : 10x8 glass negative photographed by James Burton in 1903. Image of RELIANCE undersail, starboard quarter view on a port close reach under gaff- rigged mainsail and topsail, staysail, jib and flying jib, heeled over rail down with shoreline in background. RELIANCE was a 143' cutter and the largest America's Cup defender ever built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island from designs by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff for the defense against the British SHAMROCK III in 1903. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "953-- Reliance G 16 / 1903". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer. NOTES AMERICA-SCOOP :LICENCE : Public domain |
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