THE AMERICA CUP.

Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 17, 8 October 1901, Page 4

THE AMERICA CUP.

Interesting Particulars As a. good deal of interest attaches to the results of previous events for this trophy, we give, to -day, additional details of all the contests since 1851, mentioning the names of the contesting vessels, and of their respective owners, and particulars of the time and distance by which each race was won.

Date. Name. Owner. Won by ISSI m s Aug 2.2 America G. L. Schulyer 18 o Aurora T. le Marchant i?7o Aug 8 Magic Fr'klin Osgood 39 12 Cambria J. Ashbury 1871 Oct 16 Columbia Fr'klin Osgood 27 4 Livonia J. Ashbury Oct iS Columbia 'Fr'klin Osgood 10 33! Livonia J. Ashbu.ry Oct 19 Livonia J. Ashbury 15 10 Columbia Fr'klin Osgood Oct 21 Sappho W. P. Douglas 33 21 Livonia 1. Ashbury 1876 Oct 23 Sappho W. P. Douglas 25 27 Livonia J. Ashbury Aug 11 Madeline J. S. Dickerson 10 59 Countess of Dufferin Major C. Gifford Aug 12 Madeline J. S. Dickerson 27 14 Countess of Dufferin Major C. Gifford 1881 Nov 9 Mischief J. R. Busk 28 20-| Atalanta Alex Cuthbert Nov 10 Mischief J. R. Busk 38 54 Atalanta Alex Cuthbert 1885 Sept 14 Puritan J. M. Forbes 16 19 Sept 16 Puritan J. M. Forbes 138 Genesta Sir R. Sutton 1886 Sept 9 Mayflo.Yer Gcn.C. J.Paine 12 2 Galatea Lieut Henn, R.N. Sept 11 Mayflower Gen. C. J.Paine 29 9 Galatea Lieut Henn, R.N. 1887 Sept 27 Volunteer" Gen. C.]-Paine 19 23! Thistle James Bell Sept 30 Volunteer Gen.C. J.Paine 11 48! Thistle James Bell 1893 Oct 7 Vigilant C.O.lselin 548 Valkvrie II Lord Dunraven Oct 9 Vigilant C.O.lselin 10 35 Talkyriell Lord Dunraven Oct. 13 Vigilant C.O.lselin 040 Valkyrie II Lord Dunraven 189 S Sept 7 Defender C.O.lselin 549 Valkyrielll Lord Dunraven Sept 10 Defender C.O.lseiin o 47 Valkyrielll Lord Dunraven Sept 12 Defender C.O.lselin* Valkyrielll Lord Dunraven

1899 Oct 17 -Columbia C. Q, Iselin A mile Shamrock Sir T. Lipton Oot 18 Columbia CO. Iselin Shamrock Sir T. Liptondisabl'd Oct 21 Columbia C. O. Iselin, 1 mile Shamrock Sir T. Lipton *Race not completed. Lord Dunraven withdrew on crossing the line. He complained that the course was wilfully obstructed. The Sandy Hook course is 37 miles long, and according to the conditions of the race it must be covered in 5i hours. The yacht America, which first carried the Cup to New York is still in existance. At the time she visited England she was 94ft long on deck; 83ft waterline; 22ft 6in beam; 9ft Sin depth of hold; lift 6in draft; her mainmast was 81ft long, 76ft 6in foremast. Her maintopmast was 33ft 6in long, no foremast, 58ft mainboom, on toreboom, 28ft main gaff, 24ft fore gaff, 17ft bowsprit outboard; 170 tonnage. After America finished her/ brilliant career in England in August, 1851, She was sold to Lord De Blaquiere, and remained in English waters for ten years. She then fell into the hands of the Southern Confederacy, and when the U.S.S. Ottawa visited Florida in 1862, America was found sunk in St John's River. She was pumped out, and sent to Port Royal, thence to Annapolis, Maryland, where she remained in the American Government service for several years, and was finally sold to General B. F. Butler. She still remains in yachting service as staunch as ever, and by no means the least handsome nor slow r est of the nation's pleasure fleet; in fact, she is to-day a monument to the skill of her designer and excellent thoroughness of her builder. The new challenger, Shamrock 11., was built by Denny and Co., of Dum-_ barton, to the order of Sir Thomas Lipton, from designs by G. L. Watson, who also designed for Lord Dunraven the two Valkyries, which unsuccessfully competed for the Cup in 1893 and 1895. The designs of the new boat were made after a most exhaustive series of trials with models in Denny's 300 ft tank, which is unique of its kind, and a marvel of science, being fitted with appliances to test the exact amount of resistance of a model driven through the water at a given speed, also her effect upon the waves. Practically no limit was placed on the cost of Shamrock 11., which has probably been rather more than that of the first Shamrock. Altogether Sir Thomas Lipton's two attempts to capture the American Cup will have cost him about £200,000. But he can well afford this lavish expenditure, and pehaps consider that in the present instance he is only fighting the Americans with their own money, for last year he made a very successful " deal in hogs " in the United States, which is said to have returned him a profit of .£150,000.