Newport Bermuda Race, Start Class B, June 18, 1960

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Newport
1960-06-18
safety film, Kodak
4 x 5 x in.

4x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons at the start of the Class B vessels at the Newport to Bermuda Race on June 18, 1960 on a fogbound day off of Newport, Rhode Island. Image of many sailing vessels, starboard beam view. On the far right edge of the negative is the unidentified stern of a large committee vessel. In the fog from left to right identified vessels are: CHICANE, an aux. sloop of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, sail #KB3, then CARMELITA, an aux. ketch, sail #681, then PACIFICA, a yawl, sail #19 and last the British sloop, DRUMBEAT, sail #1048. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "166241F / NEWPORT BERMUDA 1960 / [Box] 5758". Handwritten: "START CLASS B". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.166241F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection