Yawl Yacht CARIBBEE, Transatlantic Race

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Mitchell, Carleton
Atlantic Ocean
July 1952
2.25 x 2.25 x 0

Safety negative by Carleton Mitchell, photographed July 2-24, 1952, during the R.O.R.C./R.B.Y.C Transatlantic Race from Bermuda to Plymouth, England; view from the bow looking down the starboard side deck at John B. Littlefield, wearing oil slicker and hat, standing with a portable foghorn at his feet and watching the fog-shrouded water; Frank MacLear is at the helm at right, on yawl yacht CARIBBEE; for other views of the Transatlantic Race 1952 on CARIBBEE see 1996.31.4339-4438; handwritten on original envelope neg.no. '4547', corresponds to original Mitchell contact; PUBL: "Passage East" by Carleton Mitchell (1953) pg. 161 facing; PUBL: "Passage East" 'Yachting' (v.93, Feb.1953) pg. 40.

1996.31.4367