DEFENDER, starboard bow view with spinnaker set, 1899

glass negative

8x10 glass plate negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles in 1899. Image of 123' Herreshoff cutter DEFENDER (built 1895 in Bristol, RI) approaching the mark. Visible in image: starboard beam view of DEFENDER running before the wind under gaff-rigged mainsail and topsail, staysail, jib, and spinnaker, the jib topsail is still tied in stops ready to be set, the forward fighters are on the bowsprit tending to the balloon jib and setting the spinnaker pole, topsail man is on the mainmast crosstrees, a steam yacht and land in background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 28 and 108. Handwritten on negative sleeve: “Defender Y420 Box 42 / Sloop Bolles”.

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer