25 more Johnston yacht photos from the 1880s and 1890s.
C. Baer
This week we uploaded 25 new images from the J. S. Johnston yacht
collection at http://www.jsjohnston.org :
Lipton's 1899 America's Cup challenger, Shamrock I
1885 America's Cup winner, Puritan
1887 America's Cup winner, Volunteer
1886 America's Cup winner, Mayflower
1895 America's Cup challenger, Valkyrie II (and Vigilant)
Herreshoff's steam yacht Tranquillo
Herreshoff's Wasp
Herreshoff's Gloriana "Carrying Club Topsail Outside Sandy Hook,
N.Y.Y.C. Regatta, 1891."
Herreshoff's steam yacht Vamoose (2 new photos)
steam yacht Ballymena
steam yacht Conqueror
J. P. Morgan's steam yacht Corsair (later the USS Gloucester)
steam yacht Wild Duck
steam yacht Norwood "Doing a Mile in 2.12½"
steam yacht Electra (two views)
steam yacht Helvetia
steam yacht Anita
steam yacht Cyclops
steam yacht Peerless
The Lightship at Sandy Hook, NJ
The NYYC fleet at Newport, RI
Merlin "winning Goelet Cup race, 1890"
The new images are on the tenth and eleventh pages of thumbnails at
http://www.jsjohnston.org/browse10.html and
http://www.jsjohnston.org/browse11.html
They are scattered about (we're still scanning out of order.)
Let us know if you can add any new information to these vessels!