Atlantic (ship, 1903)
 The schooner Atlantic (August 17, 1904)
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The 3-mast schooner Atlantic was built in 1903 as a racing schooner (regatta yacht) for the New York millionaire Wilson Marshall at the Townsend & Downey shipyard, Schooter Island, New York . The yacht designer was William Gardner.
Dimensions
- Length from bow to stern : 56.43 meters (185 feet , 6 inches )
- Bowsprit : 11.25 meters (37 feet)
- Overall length: 69.24 meters
- Width: 8.85 meters (29 feet)
- Draft: 5.50 meters (18 feet)
- Displacement: 395 tons
- Construction material: steel (for hull and masts)
- Frame spacing: 558.8 millimeters (20 inches), 96 frames
- Propulsion: steam engine with 400 HP, cruising speed 17 knots
- Weight of the machine: 30 tons, including the kettle but without coal
- Ancillary units: 2 electric generators, heating, cooling, hot water
- The salon was made of marble and the rest of the interior in the finest mahogany. There were three large bathrooms (with bathtubs) and a large kitchen.
- Sail area: 1,720 m² (18,500 square feet), schooner rigging, this dimension in the transatlantic record
- Sail material: cotton
- Mast height: 48 meters, three masts
- Crew: 39 men (officers and crew)
Transatlantic record under sail 1905
In 1905, the schooner took Atlantic under the command of the successful America's Cup - skipper Charlie Barr on the transatlantic regatta and wrote sailing history. On the regatta course from Sandy Hook , New Jersey to the Lizard Lighthouse ( Lizard Point ) on the coast of Cornwall in England, she won the fabulous time of 12 days, 4 hours, 1 minute and 19 seconds and won the Kaiser Cup, donated by Kaiser Wilhelm II.
The native Scotsman Charlie Barr sailed so uncompromisingly on the record that he had the owner Marshall, who was also sailing, locked in his cabin when he instructed the skipper to turn down when the storm was strong. You hired me to win the race. And that's exactly what I intend to do! Barr is said to have called to the panicked Marshall.
This record for monohull yachts was only broken 100 years later, in 2005, by the American yacht Mari-Cha IV in the Rolex Transatlantic Challenge , an extreme regatta yacht built from the most modern building materials and significantly lighter than the schooner Atlantic , which has a complete Interior and had a heavy machine (see above).
history
During the First World War , she served as a mother ship and supply ship for submarines . During World War II , she was a training ship for the US Coast Guard from 1941 to 1947 . Its subsequent owner, such as the railway and coal magnate Cornelius van der Bilt and Gerald Lambert , owner of Lambert Pharmacal Cy use it as a mother ship during regattas for yachts Vanity and J-Class yachts used Yankee in England.
In January 1982 she was scrapped in Newport Harbor, Virginia (USA).
Atlantic replica
The Dutchman Ed Kastelein has awarded the construction contract for a replica of the schooner Atlantic to the Van der Graaf BV shipyard in Hardinxveld-Giessendam (Netherlands) (consultant designer: Doug Peterson ). The launch took place on March 15, 2008. Two more years are planned for the final equipment and sailing tests.
Web links
- Atlantic reincarnated ( English ) In: Yachting World . IPC Media Ltd .. November 22, 2006. Archived from the original on June 4, 2009. Retrieved on April 22, 2017.
- Video: Launching Atlantic (March 15, 2008)
Footnotes
- ↑ Source: www.schooner-atlantic.com Accessed December 30, 2010
- ↑ ATLANTIC WINS THE KAISER'S CUP . New York Times. May 30, 1905. Retrieved December 1, 2008.
- ↑ Rolex Transatlantic Challenge: "Mari-Cha IV" ahead of historic sailing record . seglermagazin.de. June 1, 2005. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved on December 1, 2008.
- ↑ Photos of the replica.Retrieved December 30, 2010