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1868: Race sailed round the Isle of Wight. Cambria beat Richard Poillon's schooner, Sappho. This win pushed Ashbury to challenge for the America's Cup for the first time.
Towed by the French yacht Fauvette, Cambria was the third yacht (first British yacht) to pass through the Suez Canal, on November 17, 1869. The imperial steam yacht Aigle was first.
May 1870: Sappho defeated Cambria in three consecutive matches.
July 1870: Cambria won the East to West Atlantic race from Queenstown to the Sandy Hook Lightship vessel, New York, in 23 days 5 hours and 17 minutes.
August 8 1870: Cambria did not win in the first ever-sailed America's Cup.
1870 NYYC Annual Cruise:
August 16: Schooner race in Newport. Magic first, Cambria second at 26 seconds elapsed time on Fort Adams to Block Island course and back.
August 17: Same course in a match race against Palmer. Cambria was beaten by 7 minutes. Race sailed by fresh wind.
August 18: Same course in a match race against Idler. Cambria won by 8 minutes.
September 8: Cup offered for the schooner yachts by James Gordon Bennett. Cambria, Sappho, Palmer, Vesta, Tidal Wave, Idler, Madeleine, Halcyon, Phantom and Madgie: triangular course of 60 miles, sailed off Newport. Palmer won by 4 minutes over Cambria, which finished second.
September 9: Cambria, Phantom and Madeleine raced at Block Island. Both yachts beat Cambria.
September 11: Citizens of Newport Cup. Palmer, Phantom, Dauntless and Cambria finished a race sailed by strong wind (on 11 starters). Phantom was 1st and Cambria 2nd!
September 28: Newport to New York course. Cup offered by Mr. Douglas. Cambria did not sail well.
October 13: match race between Sappho and Cambria on a 20 miles downwind course and windward back; start from Sandy Hook Lightship vessel. Strong wind. Sappho won by 50 minutes and 50 seconds.
October 14: last match race. Cambria raced Dauntless on a 20 miles windward course from Sandy Hook Lightship vessel and return. Dauntless won by 12 minutes 30 seconds on elapsed time and by 7 minutes and 18 seconds on corrected time.
November 1870: Cambria was back in England.
1871: Cambria was sold for trade navigation. Sailed on coastal navigation for about thirty years up and down the East African coast. At the turn of the 19th century, it sank during a sudden storm.
J.T.
CAMBRIA
1870
GBR
Yacht Club: Royal Thames Yacht Club. Chairman: S.N. Driver.
Cambria was the first challenger to sail the America's Cup. It raced against a NYYC fleet of 14 boats. Magic won the race. Cambria finished eighth on elapsed time 27 minutes and 3 seconds behind the winner (tenth on corrected time, 39 minutes and 8 seconds after Magic).
Owner (1870): James Lloyd Ashbury
Keel schooner yacht
Modeler: Michael Ratsey
Builder: Michael Ratsey, in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England.
Launched 1868 in Cowes.
Voiles (1870): Ratsey, Cowes.
Skipper (1870): J. Tannock.
Afterguard: A.B. Cook, Dr. Charles Coles, and Dixon Kemp.
Data:
Material: Oak with teak topsides.
Dimensions:
L.O.A.: 34.45 m
L.W.L.: 29.74 m
Beam: 6.45 m
Draft: 3.74 m
Displacement: 188 T (Thames Measurement)
227.6 T (NYYC Measurement)
348 T (B.O.M.)
Sail area: 830 m2
Rating: 2105.8 sq. ft.
Mast: 22.30 m
Boom: 18.90 m
Bowsprit: 9.25 m
Topmast: 12.20 m
Foremast: 21.48 m
Foretopmast: 11.45 m
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Year of building
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1868 |
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Launched
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1868 |
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Edition 1(1870)
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Crew
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Hull
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Wood |
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Mast
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Wood |
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L.O.A
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34.45 |
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L.W.L
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29.74 |
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Mast
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22.3 |
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Beam
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6.45 |
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Boom
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18.9 |
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Sail Area
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Displacament
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188 |
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Draft
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3.74 |
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Rating
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Ballast
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