The America Schooner Yacht. C Stevens, Esq Commodore of the New York Yacht Club

by Thomas Goldsworth after Brierly Dutton

$1,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

The great yacht whose humiliating defeat of all British rivals led to the establishment of the greatest of all yachting challenge cup races: the America's Cup . Owned by Commodore John C. Stevens and five other members of the New York Yacht Club, the America was built in New York to the revolutionary design of George Steers. Launched in May 1851, in June of the same year she sailed to challenge the English yachting establishment. After having two challenges for races turned

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