Colin Ratsey and Rod Stephens, mast work on COLUMBIA, US16, 1958

color slide

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

35mm color slide photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1958 at Newport, Rhode Island. Close up image of Rod Stephens, partially behind the aluminum mast, in a red hooded sweatshirt using a hacksaw to cut a piece of metal and Colin Ratsey in a dark T-shirt standing on the left helping to hold the metal piece with the help of an unidentified man at the base of the mast of COLUMBIA, US 16. 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 Stephens of Sparkman and Stephens and rigged by Rod Stephens. Colin Ratsey was part of the crew on halyards and sheets. Mount info. handwritten: none. Processor's stamp: "PATENTED / MADE IN U.S.A.". Manufacturer's info. on verso: "MU 7-1396 / PROCESSED BY JACK WARD COLOR SERVICE / 202 EAST 44, N.Y.". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. DUP 1

BOX.1984.187.1.5.1

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection