Sep29
Another instalment of Jeff Cole’s collection of hundred-year old yacht racing photos
Moonbeam as depicted in a supplement to The Yachtsman, No. 658, November, 1903. Photo is by Kirk & Son of Cowes. Jeff points out that the sides of the cockpit are rolled. I’m not quite convinced - I think there may be a tender on the port side, and a rolled-up sail on the starboard.
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Tutty and Nevada battle it out in a photo from a supplement to The Yachtsman, No. 556, December 1901. Photo is by West & Son of Southsea.
Gleniffer. There’s no attribution but the image is a Photomezzotype,and was probably taken before 1895. St Andrew’s flag flies on the forepeak. She looks new, says Jeff, even in this old picture.
Iverna. Again, there’s attribution to show who took the shot. Jeff says that he thinks she is carved and gilded under the bowsprit, and adds that she’s also an interesting hull shape with lots of room inside.
Colombine, winner of the Emperor’s Cup, 1900. This photo appears in a supplement to The Yachtsman, No. 489, August 1900. The photo is by W U Kirk & Sons of Cowes.
A bonus photo tonight, but as yet with no information. This is Heartsease:
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“Heartsease” Supplement to the Yachtsman No 654, October 1903
Photo Kirk & Sons, Cowes I have several pix of Heartsease and I’ll have to check but forked pennant on the peak looks Danish, or maybe German, seems to be the Red Ensign on the mizzen. Quite possible with the family connections in the Royal Yacht club, practically all the Royal families in europe and Scandinavia were cousins via Victoria and Albert.
I think you are right about Moonbeam, but it seems a a rather large boat for the normal tender.
Jeff
Matter of interest, seeing Jeffs picture of ‘Iverna’ the first time I remember seeing ‘ Iverna’ she was on the foreshore up the ‘bag’ in Salcombe,about 1981, a hulk, the yard I was working for sent me over in a dinghy to remove some of her teak planking, I then used the superb quality teak for a toe rail repair on a yacht, having to bung up a few original fastening holes mind you.I was down there last summer on the foreshore looking at the remains of the ‘Rulewater’ (my father lived on the ‘Rulewater’ in the late sixties) and all thats left or ‘Iverna’ are her iron frames and a few deck beams and some of the backbone mostly under the mud.
Shame as at the time that they were still rescuable no one was interested , not like the resurgence we are now experiencing.
Nick Smith Boatbuilder and Shipwright
Thanks for the info Nick, I can add that to my files. Sad, though it’s amazing that she lasted so long, about 100 years. I don’t know the year of her build but from the kind of reproduction and the paper used ( I am a restoration bookbinder in another incarnation though not active at present), the pic dates before 1894-5 and probably from The Yachting World.