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The Last Days of the Schooner America: A Lost Icon at the Annapolis Warship Factory

The Last Days of the Schooner America: A Lost Icon at the Annapolis Warship Factory

Gendell, David
Jobson, Gary

Hardcover

General World HistoryNaval HistoryRegional: Middle Atlantic

Publisher Price: $34.95

ISBN10: 1493084445
ISBN13: 9781493084449
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: Aug 6 2024
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.41 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

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The schooner America was a technological marvel and a child star. In the summer of 1851, just weeks after her launching at New York, she crossed the Atlantic and sailed to an upset victory against a fleet of champions. The silver cup she won that day is still coveted by sportsmen. Almost immediately after that famous victory, she began a decades-long run of adventure, neglect, rehabilitations, and hard sailing, always surrounded by colorful, passionate personalities. America ran and enforced wartime blockades. She carried spies across the ocean. And she was on the scene as yachtsmen and business titans spent freely and competed fiercely for the cup she first won. By the early twentieth century, she was in desperate need of a thorough refit. The old thoroughbred floated in brackish water at the United States Naval Academy, stripped of her sails and rotting in the sun. Refitting America would be a massive project-expensive and potentially distracting for a nation struggling to emerge from the Great Depression and preparing for a world war. But the project had a powerful sponsor.

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