VALKYRIE III 1895

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Port beam view of the sloop yacht VALKYRIE III undersail at the 1895 America's Cup challenge. Photograph by Charles Edwin Bolles, a Brooklyn, NY photographer (c.1880-1909). VALKYRIE III was a British challenger with Edward Sycamore at the helm. She was designed by George L. Watson and built by D. & W. Henderson & Co. in Glasgow, Scotland 1895.