The beautiful behemoth Reliance handily defended the America’s Cup in 1903, but she was so freakishly big the contest’s rules on design were changed after the race. The challenge for the America’s Cup that year was issued by British tea magnate Sir Thomas Lipton. He had already challenged America twice since 1899 for the Cup, …
Leaves San Pedro With Fifty-Twp People on Board, Is Overdue and Alarm Is Felt for Her Safety April 5, 1903 – The freight and passenger steamer Newsboy of the Merchants’ Independent line, which left the East San Pedro wharf Wednesday evening for San Francisco, has not yet reached her destination, according to private …
On March 4, 2009, By Tom Brown – The lumber-carrying and cod-fishing schooner Wawona, her masts cut to stumps and name board askew on the crumbling stern, is towed from her longtime berth in Waterway 4 in South Lake Union to the Lake Union Drydock Company, where she will be further documented and dismantled. The …
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First Cargo of Sugar to Port Costa Refinery On April 3, 1898, the Inca brougnt the first cargo, 31,763 bags of sugar, from Honolulu to the new sugar refinery at Port Costa, California. The barkentine Planter followed with a second sugar cargo from Honolulu shortly thereafter Inca, was “the first true five-masted schooner built on …
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Westward was launched on March 31, 1910 as hull number 692 at the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. She was built for millionaire yachtsman Alexander S. Cochran at a cost of $ 118,000. Westward was designed to the International Rule by N.G. Herreshoff to compete in Europe. Westward was the biggest boat built at the time by …
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