cutter KIRAWAN and power cruiser MONSOON, port beams, Newport Bermuda Race, 1936

black-and-white photograph; safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, Long Island Sound
1936-06
safety film, Eastman Kodak #90; emulsion recovered
overall: 5 x 7 in.

7x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons during the time of the Bermuda Race in 1936. Long shot of KIRAWAN, undersail, port beam view, a 53 ft. auxiliary cutter designed by Philip L. Rhodes of Cox & Stevens, Inc. and built by Jakobson & Peterson, Inc. in 1936 for Robert P. Baruch of New York. Following behind her is the large 50' Matthews cruiser MONSOON owned by Dr. Herman B. Baruch. Information from the verso of a print says that KIRAWAN was the winner of the Bermuda Race on corrected time. She took the Bermuda Trophy and the Class B. prize. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "75448F / BERMUDA RACE 1936 / [Box] 4260". Handwritten: "KIRAWAN". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

MONSOON cruiser, Matthews
1984.187.75448F

Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection