Start Schooners, 1921

copy negative

4 x 5 copy negative made from 6 x 8 glass plate negative taken by Rosenfeld and Sons on July 28, 1921. View of 100' Herreshoff schooner OHONKARA (built 1920 in Bristol, RI), 114' Lawley & Son built, Arthur Binney design schooner SONNICA (built 1906 in S. Boston, Mass.), and 85' Lawley & Son built, Tams, Lemoine & Crane design schooner DERVISH (built 1906 in S. Boston, Mass.) seen at the start of the New York Yacht Club cruise. Visible in image: port beam views of three schooners running free before the wind under gaff-rigged main and foresails, topsails, main staysails, and genoa jibs, schooners from foreground to background: OHONKARA (C/2), SONNICA (D/15) and DERVISH. Both SONNICA and DERVISH were wooden hulled vessels, OHONKARA was steel-hulled. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Printed on negative sleeve: "REITHER-DULBERG / REITER-DULBERG LABORATORIES, INC. / 157 WEST 54TH STREET / NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10019 / 212-582-6871 / COLOR & B/W PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES".

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection