RELIANCE hauled out, port bow view, 1903

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, NY, New York Bay
1903
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles in 1903. Image of RELIANCE part way out of the water showing a port beam view with a launch attending alongside and men examining the keel and crew observing from the deck. RELIANCE was a 143' cutter and the largest America's Cup defender ever built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island from designs by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff for the defense against the British SHAMROCK III in 1903. She was bronze plated over steel frames, flat sections, a fin keel & long overhangs. She also placed a number of winches below deck, both halyards & sheets led below. Syndicate owned by: H. Vanderbilt, Rockefeller and others. Syndicate manager: C. Oliver Iselin. Captain: Charles Barr. RELIANCE had 2 steering wheels, a hollow rudder which could be filled or emptied, special winches, shifting gears, and other new design changes. She had a crew of 64. RELIANCE was broken up after the 1903 race and scrapped. Neg. sleeve info.: "Y964 / Cup Yacht / Box 98". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

Y.1984.187.964

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer