Word: britannia
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Scudding grey clouds and squally weather ushered in Cowes Week, Great Britain's chief yachting fixture. The regatta started with tragedy. Just before the first race the Britannia, King George's 38-year-old cutter journeyed for position by the starting buoy off Calshot Head, proud of her new Marconi rig with its towering hollow mast. King George was aboard, snugly dressed and eager for the day's sport. A squall struck the Britannia's vast mainsail. She heeled over and nosed into a grey comber. Right before King George's eyes the wash swept...
...Shamrock V, Sir Thomas Lipton's famed unsuccessful America's Cup Challenger: a 40-mile race at Cowes, beating King George's Britannia by seven minutes...
...Standing on the deck of his racing yacht Britannia, puffing cigarets in wet and squally weather His Majesty King George won his 200th and 201st yacht races last week at Cowes, Isle of Wight. It was a bad week for other yachtsmen at Cowes. Lucilla, smart 12-metre yacht, was crashed into by the big cutter Lulworth...
William Saunders, steward on the Lucilla, was drowned. Tom Wright, seaman on Lord Waring's cutter White Heather, had both his legs broken in a squall. Three other yachts were dismasted or overturned. Britannia was kept out of the races one day with a split mainsail...
...June 9?Trial races of Sir Thomas Lipton's America's Cup challenger; Shamrock V v. King George's new Britannia; at Ryde. Cowes and Southampton, England...