Document No 1361: J-Boats in the Fog, America's Cup, 1937 | |||||||||||||||
REF : 0 EDITION : 1937 DATE : 31 Jul 1937 - 17:00 COURSE : 1 DESCRIPTION SITE : 4x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1937. Image of 127.5' W. Starling Burgess designed, Herreshoff built J class sloop RAINBOW (built 1934 in Bristol, R.I.), 135' Olin Stephens designed, Bath Iron Works built J class sloop RANGER (built 1937 in Bath, Me.), and 130' Charles E. Nicholson designed, Camper & Nicholson Yard built J class cutter ENDEAVOUR (built 1934 in Gosport, England) in the fog off Buzzard's Bay. Visible in image: foggy port beam view of RAINBOW, RANGER and ENDEAVOUR on starboard close reaches under marconi-rigged mainsails, staysails and jibs, an four unidentified sloop is almost lost in the fog. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection , image acquired in honor of Franz Schneider. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 124. Stamped on original negative sleeve: "85220F / 4418" and handwritten: "fog photos". NOTES AMERICA-SCOOP :LICENCE : Autorisation en cours |
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BATEAUX : RANGER ENDEAVOUR II | |||||||||||||||
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