WHIM, Atlantic Class, #10, 1947

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, Port Washington
1947
5 x 4 x 0 in.

4x5 black-and-white negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1947. Image of 30.5' Burgess & Morgan designed, Abeking & Rasmussen built Atlantic class sloop WHIM (built 1929 in Lemwerder, Germany), 20.5' Herreshoff S class sloop TINKER (built 1919 in Bristol, RI), and a 18' Philip Rhodes designed, Cape Cod Shipbuilding Co. built Rhodes 18 class sloop (built in Wareham, Mass.) at Manhasset Bay Yacht Club Race Week off Port Washington, NY. Visible in image: port bow view of WHIM (A/10) running before the wind under marconi-rigged mainsail and spinnaker, in background are numerous sloops including a Rhodes 18 class sloop (CR / 24) and TINKER (S/8). CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 99 and 117. Handwritten on negative sleeve: “A 10 Whim / Man. Bay YC Race Week” and stamped: "118474F / 4972".

1984.187.118474F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection