MARCH 3, 1900.] 
OTHER FULL-RIGGED MODELS, 
Presented b 
Lloyd Phoenix, Esq. 
Intrepid (1893) Aux. schooner 
Com. F. G. Bourne. 
Delaware Steamer 
Shemara Steamer LeDroict L. Barber, Esq. 
Lorena Turbinia Amzi L. Barber, Esq. 
Nearly all of the full-rigged models we have 
had built required considerable research for 
their lines, rigging and sail plans; and we are in- 
debted to Commander John A. H. Nickels, U. S. 
Navy, for having secured for us accurate detail 
drawings of Magic and Madeleine, these yachts 
having been sold to trade in Florida, and were 
there at a time when Commander Nickels was 
stationed at Key West. 
We wish to thank Mr. A. Cary Smith for the 
lines and detail plans of Countess of Dufferin and 
Atalanta, challengers for the America Cup 1876 
and 1881, which he has been good enough to 
make for the club from data obtained by us and 
that in his own possession, 
We are indebted to Mr. J. Wilton Morse, of 
Toronto, Canada, for photographs of these ves- 
sels, which will materially assist in the construc- 
tion of their full-rigged models. 
The data necessary for the building of all the 
models of America Cup challengers and defend- 
ers is now complete. 
We thank Mr. J. Beavor-Webb, not only for 
the detail plans of Genesta and Galatea, but for. 
his personal supervision of the work on their 



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models, and for his advice, which has materially 
assisted us in building and rigging the model of 
Cambria. 
We wish to thank Mr. W. P. Stephens for the 
lines on 3in. scale of Shadow, and Mr. James 
Poillon for offsets of the original Sappho, 1867, 
from which a model can be readily made, and the 
designers, Mr. William Gardner, Messrs. Tams, 
Lemoine & Crane, Mr. Henry J. Gielow, Messrs. 
Wintringham & Wells, Mr. Arthur Binney, Mr. 
B. B. Crowninshield and Mr. W. B. Stearns for 
their assistance, and to assure them that we fully 
appreciate the time and trouble they have so gen- 
erously given to this work. 
With a view to identify and name our “Old 
Ship” model, the subject of our frontispiece, we 
wrote the Admiralty Library, London, inclosing 
photographs of her. In answer, we received a 
letter from the librarian, Ferdinand Brand, Esq., 
from which we quote the following: 
“With reference to your letter 1 beg to state, 
for the information of the Model Committee of 
the New York Y. C. that so far I have been 
unable to identify the ship which your fine model 
represents, either by means of plates or prints in 
books or paintings of ships. 
“Tt has afforded me much interest and pleasure 
to investigate the matter, and it is with much re- 
gret that I am only able to say, after careful ex- 
amination of the photographs of the model, that 
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it probably represents the original design of an 
English ship of the latter half of the seventeenth 
century, 
“My assistant has carefully compared the 
photographs with the models of the period at the 
Royal United Service Institution and at the 
Naval College Museum at Greenwich, but has 
been unable to find any corresponding model, and 
we can only conclude that your model is one 
which escaped retention in England at the time 
when, by order of His Majesty William IV., the 
models at Kensington Palace were transferred, in 
1830, to the Naval College at Greenwich. 
“The photographs will be retained, and if at 
any future time the ship represented can be iden- 
tified you will be informed.” 
We have prepared a card catalogue in duplicate 
of half-models, giving name, location by section, 
number, scale and source of model, designer, 
builder, type, construction, dimensions and year 
launched of yacht, and her history whenever 
attainable. 
Through the courtesy of the Treasurer we were 
enabled to reduce to scale and build half-models 
for the members and to have the cost charged to 
their account. This saved considerable trouble 
and greatly facilitated the work of the committee. 
It was deemed inadvisable to reduce to the club 
scale any models of yachts built prior to 1885, ex- 
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