Atlantic Links > Historical (7)
A collection of links relating to the first schooner Atlantic...
 Mystic Seaport The Museum of America and the Sea. http://www.mysticseaport.org/ | |
 Clipper Cutty Sark Learn about the life of the ship from her launch in 1869 until the present day. http://www.cuttysark.org.uk/ | |
 Mariners' Museum For over seventy years, the history of the ocean and its relationship with humankind has been told and displayed in one of the largest maritime museums in the world. In 1930, The Mariners' Museum was brought to life by Archer Milton Huntington, son of railroad and shipping magnate Collis P. Huntington, who founded Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company just a few miles from the Museum. Newport News, Virginia (USA). http://www.mariner.org/ | |
 Museum of Yachting Located in Newport Rhode Island, dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of yachting. The collection includes Atlantic's trophy for the 1928 trans-Atlantic race, the Copa De Barcelona given by the King of Spain for the best single day's run. http://www.moy.org/ | |
 NYTimes.com - ATLANTIC WINS THE KAISER'S CUP LONDON, May 30 1905. - The Kaiser's Cup, offered for the international yacht race from Sandy Hook to the Lizard Light, has become an American institution, to rank hereafter in history beside the famous trophy won in British waters by the yacht America fifty-four years ago, by virtue of the magnificent transatlantic run made by Wilson Marshall's schooner Atlantic. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C00EED91E3DE633A25753C3A9639C946497D6CF | |
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Records of the Schooner Atlantic Mystic Seaport's collection (number 268) of records of the racing yacht Atlantic. Includes several pieces of ephemera from her victory in the 1905 Ocean Race for the Kaiser's Cup, as well as a small journal kept on board for the race. The collection also includes a number of newspaper clippings detailing her construction, successes under the ownership of Wilson Marshall, and eventual loss. http://www.mysticseaport.org/ | |
 Seglermagazin.de: Rolex Transatlantic Challenge Article in magazine about Mari-Cha IV winning the transatlantic record from Atlantic in 2005... It still took them a hundred years to better Captain Charlie Barr. [German] http://www.seglermagazin.de/Rolex-Transatlantic-Challenge.4149.0.html |
