COLUMBIA, #US16, shakedown cruise, 1958

color slide

PHOTOGRAPHS - 35 MM SLIDES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Newport
July, 1958
color film, Kodachrome; cardboard mount
overall: 1 1/2 x 1 in.

35mm color slide photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in July of 1958 off Newport, Rhode Island. Image of COLUMBIA undersail, port leeward abeam view on a starboard tack, close hauled with main and jib. COLUMBIA, was a 69'7" 12 Meter sloop, sail #US16, built for the America's Cup defense in 1958 by Henry B. Nevins, Inc. of City Island, New York from designs by Olin Stevens of Sparkman and Stevens and rigged by Rod Stevens. Her first owner was the Henry Francis Sears Syndicate of the New York Yacht Club. Mount info. handwritten: "1958 - ColumBia". Processor's stamp: "Made in U.S.A. / (black) 4"." Embossed: "JUL 58". Manufacturer's info.: "Kodachrome Transparency / Processed by Kodak". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

BOX.1984.187.1.3.1

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection