J-Boats in the Fog, America's Cup, 1937

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, MA, Buzzards Bay
1937
Kodak safety film
4 x 5 in.

4x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1937. Image of 127.5' W. Starling Burgess designed, Herreshoff built J class sloop RAINBOW (built 1934 in Bristol, R.I.), 135' Olin Stephens designed, Bath Iron Works built J class sloop RANGER (built 1937 in Bath, Me.), and 130' Charles E. Nicholson designed, Camper & Nicholson Yard built J class cutter ENDEAVOUR (built 1934 in Gosport, England) in the fog off Buzzard's Bay. Visible in image: foggy port beam view of RAINBOW, RANGER and ENDEAVOUR on starboard close reaches under marconi-rigged mainsails, staysails and jibs, an four unidentified sloop is almost lost in the fog. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection , image acquired in honor of Franz Schneider. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 124. Stamped on original negative sleeve: "85220F / 4418" and handwritten: "fog photos".

UNIDENTIFIED sloop, J Class
1984.187.85220F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, image acquired in honor of Franz Schneider