SOVEREIGN, 1964

safety negative

4x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons circa 1964. Image of 69' David Boyd designed, Alexander Robertson & Sons built 12 meter class sloop SOVEREIGN (built 1958 in Sandbank, Scotland) at 1964 America's Cup. Visible in image: starboard beam view of SOVEREIGN (12/K 12) running before the wind under marconi-rigged mainsail, spinnaker staysail, and colored, geometric cut spinnaker, low cloudbank in background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 191. Stamped on original negative sleeve: "177770 / 5943" and handwritten: "12/K12 / Sovereign".

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection