Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Racing for the America's Cup starts with a challenge to the New York Yacht Club, custodian of yachting's No. 1 trophy since 1857. It continues, when the challenge is accepted, with trials to select a defender. For the past month, in light, warm winds, three candidates for the honor of defending the America's Cup raced each other day after day on the sparkling summer ocean off Newport, R. I. They were Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, Chandler Hovey's Rainbow and Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's new Ranger. Last week, the trials...
Posted on his 53rd birthday, that terse notice gave Harold Stirling Vanderbilt what he has been working for all winter. When the Royal Yacht Squadron challenge in behalf of T. O. M. Sopwith was accepted last summer. Skipper Vanderbilt was the obvious choice as his adversary. Sailing Rainbow, which most critics agreed was a slower boat than Sopwith's Endeavour I, he had contrived by sheer good seamanship to defend the Cup successfully in 1934. Ordinary procedure, in a sport where implements cost $500,000 each, is to organize a building syndicate. Instead of doing that, Skipper Vanderbilt last...
...foot power boat to review the Manasquan River deep-sea fishing fleet. A half-mile offshore, just when a water bucket had been tied on the Governor's line to show him how a tuna feels, a stunning explosion took place in the engine room, the yacht burst into flames. Governor Hoffman and his party of 27 were rescued, unscathed. The yacht burned to the water, was overturned and sunk by Coast Guardsmen...
...Whose Eye? This first week's work was plainly unsatisfying to the Congressional inquisitors. "Is that all?'' asked Senator La Follette. "Aren't you going to discuss the incorporated yacht?'' asked Congressman Frank Crowther of Schenectady. "Let's have some information, not a Roman holiday...
Slave Ship (Twentieth Century-Fox). Last known U. S. slave ship was The Wanderer, built as a yacht, the fastest craft flying the burgee of the New York Yacht Club. In 1857 her owner, John D. Johnson, sold her to a fellow club-member, W. C. Corrie. New York yachtsmen did not know much about Corrie. He was a mysterious but affable gentleman, amply provided with funds, who professed an interest in the finer points of yachting and declared himself in the market for a speedy boat. After buying The Wanderer he was no longer seen around the club. Refitted...